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A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein…A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherin…
A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein is showed, I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasy, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherin is shewed, I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasie, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1679
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4. If the Lord cast off the immediate Seed, he remembers his Covenant to others that are more remote. Esau was hated, yet it is conceived by learned men that Job and his godly friends were of Isaacs posterity by Esau. [d]Samuel's son Joel was not like his Father, but his grand-child Heman was an excellent Prophet like his blessed grand-Father; yea, and many of Samuel's great grand-Children, were faithful Ministers in the house of God, 1 Chron. 6. 33. and 25. 5, 6. The Lord hath sometimes cast off a few generations, and yet at last remembers his Covenant made with blessed Ancestors; Jer. 31. 17. There is hope in thine end, (h. e. as to after generations there is hope) saith the Lord, that thy Children shall come again to their own border. There is then cause to nourish hope concerning such Children; there is so with respect to succeeding generations in New-England; Albeit there is doleful degeneracy appearing in the face of this generation, and no man can say, but that the body of the present generation will perish both temporally and eternally, yet there are some that the Lord will remember his Covenant with, even a remnant according to Election that shall be saved. ⟨p. 20⟩We may say of New-Englands Children (many of them) as the Apostle speaketh concerning the Jews, however the case may be with them at the present, they are beloved for their Fathers sake, Rom. 11. 28.
4. If the Lord cast off the immediate Seed, he remembers his Covenant to others that are more remote. Esau was hated, yet it is conceived by learned men that Job and his godly friends were of Isaacs posterity by Esau. [d]Samuels son Joel was not like his Father, but his grand-child Heman was an excellent Prophet like his blessed grand-Father; yea, and many of Samuels great grand-Children, were faithful Ministers in the house of God,