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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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2. This Dehortation is plainly expressed in the verse immediately preceding this Text, Remove sorrow from thy heart. The Hebrew word translated Sorrow, signifieth Anger: q. d. Beware of inordinate passions, which young men are usually subject unto: And put away evil from thy flesh, h. e. avoid sinful pleasures. Passions and sinful pleasures are evils which young men are most in danger of being carried away by; therefore he doth in special caution them against iniquities of that nature: withal adding this reason, for Childhood and Youth are vanity. h. e. its soon gone, thy time (young man) to enjoy sinful and foolish pleasures will […] be past & gone, it abideth not, therefore set not thy heart upon such things.
2. This Dehortation is plainly expressed in the verse immediatly preceding this Text, Remove sorrow from thy heart. The Hebrew word translated Sorrow, signifieth Anger: q. d. Beware of inordinate passions, which young men are usually subject unto: And put away evil from thy flesh, h. e. avoid sinful pleasures. Passions and sinful pleasures are evils which young men are most in danger of being carried away by; therefore he doth in special caution them against iniquities of that nature: withal adding this reason, for Childhood and Youth are vanity. h. e. its soon gone, thy time (young man) to enjoy sinful and foolish pleasures will 〈…〉 be past & gone, it abideth not, therefore set not thy heart upon such things.
2. We have Solomons Exhortation unto young men in this verse: wherein is expressed 1. The Act that ought to be done, Remember. 2. The Object, thy Creator. i. e. God for he, and he only is the CREATOR; since it requireth an infinite power to be able to produce a work of Creation. Hebr. [Boreeca] Thy Creators: Not that there are more Gods or more Creators than one: But there is a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. Though the work ⟨p. 135⟩of Creation be more especially ascribed to the Father, as Redemption to the Son, and application to the Spirit, yet each of the Persons in the Sacred and Eternal Trinity, doth concur therein. 3. The Time or Season, when this Duty ought to be attended is expressed. viz. now, in the days of thy youth. not that they that are past the days of their youth may forget God, or be exempted from this Remembrance of him, but young men are under special obligations and Advantages to remember Him.