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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. Young men as well as others owe service unto God; He is their Creator as the Text expresseth. Now that one Consideration has great weight in it to enforce duty and obedience. For certainly all owe service unto him, from whom they have received their Beings, Psal. 95.6. O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. HE hath made all for himself, from him and for him are all things. He, as Creator hath given unto men reasonable souls in respect whereof they are capable of knowing and serving the Lord: and he is able to destroy them: He that made them can destroy them; as it is said concerning that creature, He that made him, can cause his sword to approach unto him. Job 40.19. Therefore it concerns men to fear their Creator.
3. Young men as well as others owe service unto God; He is their Creator as the Text expresseth. Now that one Consideration has great weight in it to enforce duty and obedience. For certainly all owe service unto him, from whom they have received their Beings, Psal. 95.6. O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. HE hath made all for himself, from him and for him are all things. He, as Creator hath given unto men reasonable souls in respect whereof they are capable of knowing and serving the Lord: and he is able to destroy them: He that made them can destroy them; as it is said concerning that creature, He that made him, can cause his sword to aproach unto him. Job 40.19. Therefore it concerns men to fear their Creator.
But to proceed to the third Particular, namely,
But to proced to the third Particular, namely,