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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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I would not lessen the grace of God, I know that through Grace many of the younger Generation are brought home to God in Jesus Christ, yet in many (I doubt in most) Congregations the number of sincere Converts is but small, compared with those that remain still in a natural and unconverted Estate. And as for some that have the Root of the matter in them, yet they fall much short of their fathers grace. Solomon was a good man and his soul is now in Heaven, yet he was not like David his Father as to measure of grace and faithfulness, […]. 11.6. We may see here and there one […] much of his blessed Fathers spirit […] principles, but how rare are such among us! […] the interest of New-England is now […] from a religious to a worldly interest; […] this thing is the great radical Apostasy of New-England. Is not this to choose a strange […] Hence do we see War in the gates. And the Lord has been letting this generation blood in the right vein, since he has taken the world away from them. Trade is almost ruined. Farms, Oxen, Merchandise which things have been ⟨p. 90⟩sought after in the first place, how have they failed! New-England is not like this twenty years, to be in that comfortable Estate it was in but two years ago.
I would not lessen the grace of God, I know that through Grace many of the younger Generation are brought home to God in Jesus Christ, yet in many (I doubt in most) Congregations the number of sincere Converts is but small, compared with those that remain still in a natural and unconverted Estate. And as for some that have the Root of the matter in them, yet they fall much short of their fathers grace. Solomon was a good man and his soul is now in Heaven, yet he was not like David his Father as to measure of grace and faithfulness, 〈…〉. 11.6. We may see here and there one 〈…〉 much of his blessed Fathers spirit 〈…〉 ••inciples, but how rare are such among us! 〈…〉 the interest of New-England is now 〈…〉 from a religious to a worldly interest; 〈…〉 this thing is the great radical Apostacy of New-England. Is not this to choose a strange 〈…〉 Hence do we see Warr in the gates. And the Lord has been letting this generation bloud in the right vein, since he has taken the world away from them. Trade is almost ruined. Farmes, Oxen, Merchandise which things have been