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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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If their Children are like to live well in the World, and their Families to be made richer, they look ⟨p. 129⟩no further; a sad sign that Religion will expire, and such Families be cut off from the Covenant, within a few Generations, and the branches thereof perish for ever.
4. Pray with all manner of prayer & supplication in the Spirit. Pray as sometimes the Martyr did, Lord do not thou forsake me, lest I forsake thee. Pray for your poor Children and posterity, as David did for his son Solomon 1. Chron. 29.19. give unto my son Solomon a perfect heart. He did not only exhort and charge his Son to labour after such an heart, but earnestly prayed to God, that such an heart might be given to him. And truly, if there were more prayers poured forth before the Lord for the Converting of the rising Generation, we may hope that there would a blessed Effect follow. I have been told that there is a Church in N. England that hath set days apart only to seek unto the Lord, for converting grace to be vouchsafed to their Children. O that all other Churches would do as they have done, even seek unto the Lord by Fasting and prayer, for a poor, perishing, dying, unconverted Generation.
4. Pray with all manner of prayer & supplication in the Spirit. Pray as sometimes the Martyr did, Lord do not thou forsake me, lest I forsake thee. Pray for your poor Children and posterity, as David did for his son Solomon 1. Chron. 29.19. give unto my son Solomon a perfect heart. He did not only exhort and charge his Son to labour after such an heart, but earnestly prayed to God, that such an heart might be given to him. And truly, if there were more prayers poured forth before the Lord for the Converting of the rising Generation, we may hope that there would a blessed Effect follow. I have been told that there is a Church in N. England that hath set dayes apart only to seek unto the Lord, for converting grace to be vouchsafed to their Children. O that all other Churches would do as they have done, even seek unto the Lord by Fasting and prayer, for a poor, perishing, dying, unconverted Generation.