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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.
as a tender hearted father taketh up his child into his arms, and beareth him in his bosom. It is therefore said concerning the just man, that his Children are blessed after him. ⟨p. 27⟩Prov. 20. 7. And Jacob told his Sons that though he died, God would be with them, Gen. 48. 21. It is also noted concerning Isaac, that God blessed him after the death of his Father Abraham. Gen. 25. 11. Not but that the Lord blessed him before that, only after his Fathers death, the blessing of the Lord was upon him more then ever.
as a tender hearted father taketh up his child into his arms, and beareth him in his bosome. It is therefore said concerning the just man, that his Children are blessed after him. ⟨p. 27⟩Prov. 20. 7. And Jacob told his Sons that though he died, God would be with them, Gen. 48. 21. It is also noted concerning Isaac, that God blessed him after the death of his Father Abraham. Gen. 25. 11. Not but that the Lord blessed him before that, only after his Fathers death, the blessing of the Lord was upon him more then ever.