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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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Use of Exhortation.
Let us be exhorted in the Name and Fear of God this day, to endeavour that it may not be with us as the Text and Doctrine expresseth; let us every one in our several places and Capacities endeavour that the present and succeeding Generations in New-England, may not forsake the Lord God of their Fathers, and so endanger their being cast off for ever.
Let us be exhorted in the Name and Fear of God this day, to endeavour that it may not be with us as the Text and Doctrine expresseth; let us every one in our several places and Capassities endeavour that the present and succeeding Generations in New-England, may not forsake the Lord God of their Fathers, and so endanger their being cast off for ever.
Wherefore Consider. 1. What Fathers and Predecessors have been, they were such as did seek the Lord. As for the body of the present Generation in New-England, It may be said to them, your Fathers were such as did serve the Lord: yea, it was love to God and to Jesus Christ which brought them into this Wilderness as the Lord speaks Jer. 2.2. I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine Espousals, when thou wentest after me in the Wilderness, in a Land which was not sown. Our Fathers did not in their coming hither propound any great matter to themselves respecting this world; only that they should have liberty to serve God, and to walk with him in all the ways of his Worship. As one of our Worthies has aptly expressed, God sifted three Nations, that so he might bring over choice Grain into this Wilderness. Let us then remember what New-England hath been: It ⟨p. 77⟩hath been a noble Plant,