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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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Isai. 44.3. I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Blessing upon thine Off-spring.
The Prophet having in the Conclusion of the preceding Chapter, in the Name of God, denounced heavy Judgment to come upon the apostate Church of Israel, he doth proceed in this Chapter to speak by way of Consolation to the godly Remnant amongst them; and for that end doth put them in mind of a most gracious and glorious promise; under which we have,
THe Prophet having in the Conclusion of the preceding Chapter, in the Name of God, denounced heavy Judgment to come upon the apostate Church of Israel, he doth proceed in this Chapter to speak by way of Consolation to the godly Remnant amongst them; and for that end doth put them in mind of a most gracious and glorious promise; under which we have,
1. The Persons concerned or, the Subject of this promise, viz. The Israel of God, ver. 1. Yet hear now O Jacob my Servant, & Israel whom I have chosen. who are described from their political birth, ver. 2. Thus saith the LORD that made thee and formed thee from the womb. The *Children of Israel considered as a Church state, were born in •he day when ⟨p. 166⟩the Lord brought them out of Egypt they were then formed to be a people for himself; The Lord moulded them up into a proportionable frame of Church and State: for which cause did the Children of Israel begin their Religious account, (albeit their civil account began six months before that) from the time of the year when they came out of Egypt, since that then they seemed to begin their life. And then they were a Jeshurun; Thou Jeshurun, h. e. a righteous People as to their Constitution and Profession, according to the signification of the Name Jeshurun; they were wholly a right seed, under most righteous Laws.