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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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What became of Cain's degenerate race when they were become I know not how many Millions? the flood swept away every mothers child of them: Wherefore all the children of men that are now in the world are styled the children of Seth, Numb. 24.17. [q]because as for Cain's Apostate Generation, they all perished in the flood. When the Old World did ⟨p. 94⟩Apostatize, after the Reformation in the days of Seth, that second Apostasy proved fatal. If Churches in New-England degenerate, it is an Apostasy after Reformation. How fatal is such a relapse like to be! will not the end thereof be with a flood? And truly to be amongst the last Apostates will be most woeful.
What became of Cain's degenerate race when they were become I know not how many Millions? the flood swept away every mothers child of them: Wherefore all the children of men that are now in the world are styled the children of Seth, Numb. 24.17. [q]because as for Cain's Apostate Generation, they all perished in the flood. When the Old World did ⟨p. 94⟩Apostatize, after the Reformation in the dayes of Seth, that second Apostacy proved fatal. If Churches in New-England degenerate, it is an Apostacy after Reformation. How fatal is such a relapse like to be! will not the end thereof be with a flood? And truly to be amongst the last Apostates will be most woful.
- [q]Belgic Annot.Belgick Annot.