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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 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 N. England.A call from heaven, to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein 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 N. England.
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e for I. Brunning i.e, 1685
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The Apostle [d]in that Chapter doth compare covenanting Abraham to a Root, and the visible Church to an Olive tree, of which there are two sorts of Branches, First Natural, viz. the Jewish Church, Secondly Engrafted, i. e. the Church among the Gentiles. Now the natural branches were broken off: and therefore in the New Testament they are declared to be none of the Lords people Rev. 3.9. They call themselves Jews, but are not so, but are of the Synagogue of Satan. They say they are Jews, h. e. they boast of their being the Lords people, but in truth they are not so, (saith Christ) they glory in the Name of a Synagogue, but now they are not God's Synagogue but Satan's. ⟨p. 65⟩And in these days of the New Testament the Lord hath disowned and unchurched these and those that once were his own people, Rev. 2.5. I will remove the candlestick out of his place. that threatening is not only fulfilled on Ephesus, but on all the Churches in Asia; there have been in former Ages bright and glorious Candlesticks in that part of the world, but they are long since all broken to pieces. Also the Romish Antichristian Idolatry hath greatly prevailed amongst Christians for above these Thousand years, and as for them that are over••n there with, Christ doth declare them to be looked upon as Gentiles, as Heathens, and they are not to be looked upon as within the Temple, or as indeed appertaining to the visible Church, Rev. 11.2. And this disowning & unchurching a people is called a Casting off.
The Apostle [d]in that Chapter doth compare covenanting Abraham to a Root, and the visible Church to an Olive tree, of which there are two sorts of Branches, First Natural, viz. the Jewish Church, Secondly Ingraffed, i. e. the Church among the Gentiles. Now the natural branches were broken off: and therefore in the New Testament they are declared to be none of the Lords people