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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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Again, Sabbath-breaking is a sin which Young ones are often found guilty of before the Lord. There was a †young man (whom many of you have heard of) that came to an untimely end, and the sin of Sabbath-breaking made way to his ruin: when he should have been hearing ⟨p. 154⟩the word on the Lords day, he would rather go to wicked Houses, that at last God was so provoked with him, as to leave him to commit a capital sin, upon the Sabbath day, for which he was brought to deserved execution. And when in prison he said to some that came to visit him, O wretch that I was, I studied how I might spend the Lords day in the Devil's work: that time which I should have served God in, I did most for Satan in it. O (said he) tell young men from me, that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly sin.
Again, Sabbath-breaking is a sin which Young ones are often found guilty of before the Lord. There was a †young man (whom many of you have heard of) that came to an untimely end, and the sin of Sabbath-breaking made way to his ruin: when he should have been hearhearing ⟨p. 154⟩the word on the Lords day, he would rather go to wicked Houses, that at last God was so provoked with him, as to leave him to commit a capital sin, upon the Sabbath day, for which he was brought to deserved execution. And when in prison he said to some that came to visit him, O wretch that I was, I studied how I might spend the Lords day in the Devil's work: that time which I should have served God in, I did most for Satan in it. O (said he) tell young men from me, that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly sin.
- †Thomas Savage, who was executed at Ratcliffe-Cross Octob. 28. 1668.