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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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3. It doth also Imply Frequent thoughts and Meditations of God. Psal. 63.6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Where there is that Remembrance of God which the Text requireth, there are frequent holy Meditations on him day and night. As Solomon exhorts Prov. 23.17. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Set God before thine eyes; where-ever thou comest think of him, from morning unto night, ever and anon, let there be awful holy thoughts in thy heart concerning the Omnipresence of God. And this is to remember him. We come therefore to the second thing to be enquired into, viz.
3. It doth also Imply Frequent thoughts and Meditations of God. Psal. 63.6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Where there is that Remembrance of God which the Text requireth, there are frequent holy Meditations on him day and night. As Solomon exhorts Prov. 23.17. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Set God before thine eyes; where-ever thou comest think of him, from morning unto night, ever and anon, let there be awful holy thoughts in thy heart concerning the Omnipresence of God. And this is to remember him. We come therefore to the second thing to be enquried into, viz.
Quest. 2. How doth it appear that young men ought to remember God?
Answ. 1. The Lord doth require this, the Commandment saith expressly