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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.
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, 1 Joh. 5, 6. And Truth is said to be his Name, Christ said to his faithful ones in the Church of Pargamus, thou holdest fast my Name, Rev. 2. 13. The Truths of Christ were much opposed by the Infidels, and by the Heretics of those days, only some did faithfully adhere thereunto; and these are said to ⟨p. 40⟩hold fast his Name. So then to forsake the Truth is to forsake the Lords Name. Especially when there is Apostasy from great-Foundation. Truths in Religion, the Lord is forsaken. Albeit every Truth hath the Name of God stamped upon it, yet there are some Truths which have more of his Name on them, then others have, that the disowning of them is absolutely to reject the Lord, namely fundamental Truths, which indeed are not many nor hard to be known. Moreover, when those Truths are disowned by Children, which their Fathers were eminently engaged in the profession of, (though they should not be fundamental in their natures) such Children may 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,