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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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Quest. 3. How doth it appear that the pouring of the Spirit upon Children is a great Blessing?
Ans. 1. In that the Gift of the Holy Ghost is mentioned in the Scripture as a great and wonderful thing. It is said Act. 10.45. They were astonished because that on the Gentiles was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Yea, it is mentioned as such a gift as is equivalent to all good things, Mat. 7.11. Your Father which is in Heaven shall give good things to them that ask him. Now in Luke it is expressed, by saying, Your Heavenly Father shall give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. Chapt. 11.13. So then the gift of the Spirit is virtually all good things. Truly if God pour his Spirit upon our Children he doth more for them, than if he bestowed all the good things in the world upon them. This is the great promise of the Gospel: As the great promise of the Old Testament was concerning the Coming of the Messiah, so the great promise of the New-Testament doth respect a more plentiful Effusion of the Spirit of Grace. Hence the pouring down of the Spirit, is noted by that Expressiexpression ⟨p. 175⟩of the promise of the Father Act. 1. And he is called the Spirit of promise, Ephes. 1.13. as being the great gift which God hath promised to bestow upon his Servants.
Ans. 1. In that the Gift of the Holy Ghost is mentioned in the Scripture as a great and wonderful thing. It is said Act. 10.45. They were astonished because that on the Gentiles was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Yea, it is mentioned as such a gift as is equivalent to all good things,