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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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Therefore I come to you in the Name of the Lord, and beseech you to consider of this matter, lest the Lord kindle another fire in Boston ere long that shall burn to the Foundation of the Mountains: And I do the rather mention this thing because the subject I am upon, leads me to it, the welfare of posterity being concerned therein, it may be the sour grapes which the Fathers have eaten will set your Children's teeth an edge. I remember blessed [g]Mr. Burroughs in his Irenicum takes notice of it, that it is very dangerous for the Children of the Church to be brought up in the sight of Divisions amongst Professors. Was there not a young man (h)that came to a lamentable End in this Country who professed that the Divisions which he observed amongst godly men had occasioned his ruin? Let us remember that Scripture, Jer. 32.39. I will give them one heart to fear me for the good of them, and of their Children after them. If there be a divided heart amongst Christians, and these Divisions appear openly; it is a ⟨p. 114⟩Wrong to their Children after them. The Lord help us to Consider it.
Therefore I come to you in the Name of the Lord, and beseech you to consider of this matter, lest the Lord kindle another fire in Boston er'e long that shall burn to the Foundation of the Mounntains: And I do the rather mention this thing because the subject I am upon, leads me to it, the welfare of posterity being concerned therein, it may be the sowre grapes which the Fathers have eaten will set your Childrens teeth an edge. I remember blessed [g]Mr. Burroughs in his Irenicum takes notice of it, that it is very dangerous for the Children of the Church to be brought up in the sight of Divisions amongst Professours. Was there not a young man (h)that came to a lamentable End in this Countrey who professed that the Divisions which he observed amongst godly men had occasioned his ruin? Let us remember that Scripture,