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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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That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah, That Messiah is God as well as man, The Doctrine of Original sin, and of Salvation by Imputed Righteousness, all which things are necessary to be believed in order to eternal Life, these do they reject and disown, and therefore the Lord ha• cast them off When a people shall be so far degenerate as to lose the Essentials of Religion, they are the Lord's no longer. Heretical Assemblies may be the flocks of those that pretend to be Christs Companions, but they are none of Christ's flocks Cant. 1.7. So for scandalous miscarriages in life & conversation, these provoke the Lord to cast off a professing people. In a Building, if once the materials be rotted and Corrupted, the house will moulder away, the matter being an Essential Cause: And in Church building we know that Saints are the material Cause and therefore Scandal in Life doth destroy the Essentials of a Church, and so brings along with it this Casting off spoken of in the Text.
That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah, That Messiah is God as well as man, The Doctrine of Original sin, and of Salvation by Imputed Righteousness, all which things are necessary to be believed in order to eternal Life, these do they reject and disown, and therefore the Lord ha• cast them off When a people shall be so farr degenerate as to lose the Essentials of Religion, they are the Lord's no longer. Heretical Assemblies may be the flocks of those that pretend to be Christs Companions, but they are none of Christ's flocks Cant. 1.7. So for scandalous miscarriages in life & conversation, these provoke the Lord to cast off a professing people. In a Building, if once the materials be rotted and Corrupted, the house will moulder away, the matter being an Essential Cause: And in Church building we know that Saints are the material Cause and therefore Scandal in Life doth destroy the Essentials of a Church, and so brings along with it this Casting off spoken of in the Text.