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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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3. The Expression here doth Imply everlasting Rejection im the other world. The Hebrew Phrase [jazni chaka lagnad] Arias Montarus translateth execra•iter te in aeternum, if thou forsake him he will make thee an eternal execration. Though it be a deep truth that the line of Election [†]doth for the most part run through the loins of godly parents, yet not only so, for men may be desce••ed from godly Parents and progenitors, and •et be the subjects of eternal Reprobation & Damnation ⟨p. 66⟩Mat. 8.12. The Children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness. We read of on• that could call Abraham his Father, and unto whom Abraham said Son remember that in thy Life time thou hadst thy good things, that nevertheless when he died went to the place of Torment. If such Children forsake the Lord it is not the prayers nor tears of godly Fathers that will save them; Nay these will be an infinite aggravation of their misery. The tears of a godly father, if his Children forsake the Lord, will make the flames of Eternal fire burn the more fiercely upon their souls for ever. Therefore well might David say to his son Solomon If thou forsake the Lord he will cast the off for ever.
3. The Expression here doth Imply everlasting Rejection im the other world. The Hebrew Phrase [jazni chaka lagnad] Arias Montarus translateth execra•iter te in aeternum, if thou forsake him he will make thee an eternal execration. Though it be a deep truth that the line of Election [†]doth for the most part run through the loyns of godly parents, yet not only so, for men may be desce••ed from godly Parents and progenitors, and •et be the subjects of eternal Reprobation & Damnation ⟨p. 66⟩