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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That they be in a state of grace themselves; that they have a special and saving Interest in God. As David said to his son Solomon, 1 Chron. 28. 20. The Lord God, even my God will be with thee; So if you can, upon good grounds say, the Lord is my God, you may the better hope that he will be with your Children. If you be indeed righteous in the sight of God, it will be your poor Children's advantage; Psal. 37. 25. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his Seed begging bread. But if you be unconverted, and Christless, what a case are your Children in? That if they be in any distress, they have a Father that cannot pray for them, or if he do, his prayers find no acceptance with God, because they proceed from one that hath not an interest in Heaven; Remember that Scripture, Deut. 5. 29. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my Commandments always, that it might be well with them, & with their Children for ever; plainly intimating that if Parents truly fear God, their children shall fare the better for it; Yea, let me tell you, that then if any of them dye in their Infancies, [e]you need not doubt of their Salvation, Deut. 30. 19. Thou and thy Seed shall live. God having taken your Children into a Covenant of life, if they never break that Covenant, shall they not live for ever? yea, they shall live for ever.
1. That they be in a state of grace themselves; that they have a special and saving Interest in God. As David said to his son Solomon, 1 Chron. 28. 20. The Lord God, even my God will be with thee; So if you can, upon good grounds say, the Lord is my God, you may the better hope that he will be with your Children. If you be indeed righteous in the sight of God, it will be your poor Childrens advantage; Psal. 37. 25