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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.
That if they that are the Children and Posterity of Gods eminent Servants shall forsake the Lord, he will cast them off for ever. In the doctrinal handling of this Truth, there are four things which may be briefly enquired into. 1. When men especially the Children of Gods Servants, may be said to forsake him? 2. What is implied, in this casting off for ever? 3. What forsaking of God that is, which will be attended, with such casting off. 4. The Reason of this dreadful procedure of the most High towards the Posterity of his People.
That if they that are the Children and Posterity of Gods eminent Servants shall forsake the Lord, he will cast them off for ever. In the doctrinal handling of this Truth, there are four things which may be briefly enquired into. 1. When men especially the Children of Gods Servants, may be said to forsake him? 2. What is implyed, in this casting off for ever? 3. What forsaking of God that is, which will be attended, with such casting off. 4. The Reason of this dreadful procedure of the most High towards the Posterity of his People.
Quest. 1. When may men be said to forsake the Lord?
Answ. 1. When they depart from the blessed Truths of God, then may they be said to forsake him. Hence the Apostle chargeth it upon the Apos••tizing Galatians, that they were removed from […] that called them, Gal. 1. 6. h. e. they had forsaken God himself, because they had corrupted and forsaken the great Truths of the Gospel. All Truth is from God, therefore he is styled, the God of Truth, Deut. 32. 4. Yea, Truth it self,