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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.
to his Son Solomon, whom God appointed to succeed his Father in the Government. Now sincerity was the main thing which David his Father did exhort him unto, in the beginning of this Verse. And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. This is further urged from three motives, 1. From the consideration of the divine Omniscience. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. 2dly, From the benefit and good, which would follow upon seeking to the Lord. If thou seek him he will be found of thee. 3. From the evil that is in forsaking him; In the words now before us; which though they were spoken to Solomon, yet were they of equal concernment unto ⟨p. 39⟩others being Circumstanced as he was, h. e. that were of the younger, Rising, succeeding Generation, being also the Children and posterity of godly Parents. Especially, the words did and do concern those that are the Posterity of David, that is to say, of such as have been eminent Servants of God in their Generation. The Doctrine which I would therefore (by the help of Christ) insist on, as conceiving that it may not be altogether unsuitable for this great Audience, is this.1
to his Son Solomon, whom God appointed to succeed his Father in the Government. Now sincerity was the main thing which David his Father did exhort him unto, in the beginning of this Verse. And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. This is further urged from three motives, 1. From the consideration of the divine Omnisciency. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. 2dly, From the benefit and good, which would follow upon seeking to the Lord. If thou seek him he will be found of thee. 3. From the evil that is in forsaking him; In the words now before us; which though they were spoken to Solomon, yet were they of equal concernment unto ⟨p. 39⟩others being Circumstanced as he was, h. e. that were of the younger, Rising, succeeding Generation, being also the Children and posterity of godly Parents. Especially, the words did and do concern those that are the Posterity of David, that is to say, of such as have been eminent Servants of God in their Generation. The Doctrine which I would therefore (by the help of Christ) insist on, as conceiving that it may not be altogether unsuitable for this great Audience, is this.