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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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Pouring is something more than Sprinkling, as when there cometh a plentiful rain from heaven, enough to satisfy dry ground, it comes pouring down. As Elihu speaks Job 36.27, 28. ⟨p. 173⟩He maketh small drops of water, they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof, which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. So this pouring of the Spirit noteth a great shower of grace, hence it is said in the context that, floods shall be poured on the dry ground: Now a flood of grace intimates a great measure thereof. There are many Scripture Expressions that confirm this, Prov. 1.23. I will pour out my Spirit upon you. The Hebrew word [Nabang] which is there translated pour, signifieth to spring up, intimating that the spirit of grace in the souls of believers is like a fountain, where is an abundance of water, Isa. 32.15. until the spirit be poured out upon us from on high. The Hebrew word Gnadah signifieth to make bare; so that the meaning is, that there shall be a Manifest, conspicuous pouring forth of the spirit that all the world shall take notice of it. and indeed when a soul is converted, there is an abundant effusion of the spirit to accomplish such a strange thing as that is, to change such a cursed Nature, to renew such a vile heart, must needs proceed from a plentiful effusion of the Spirit. Tit. 3.5.6. By the washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Wherefore when it is said, I will pour my Spirit on thy seed, and my blessing on thine ⟨p. 174⟩Offspring; The Lord doth graciously promise his Servants, that their Children shall attain unto an eminency of Spiritual gifts, and unto large measures of Grace and Holiness.
Pouring is something more than Sprinkling, as when there cometh a plentiful rain from heaven, enough to satisfie dry ground, it comes pouring down. As Elihu speaks