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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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The Truth is evident in that the Blessing here spoken of, is an everlasting Blessing. Eternal good things are the Chief: So is this blessing of the Spirit, upon whom he is poured, upon them & in them, he remaineth for evermore. The Hebrew word [Jatzak] which is here translated Pour, signifieth to Fasten, as well as to Pour: I will fasten my Spirit upon your children. That In-dwelling of the person of the Holy Ghost in believers, which the New-Testament speaketh so much of, is everlasting: He abideth with them and in them forever, Joh. 14.16. And the graces of the Spirit which he doth pour upon his People are everlasting: common gifts may cease, but special grace abideth to Eternity. It is a seed of God that is incorruptible which liveth and abideth forever, 1. Pet. 1.23. As the Holy Fire (which signified the Holy Ghost his coming down from Heaven into the Hearts of his People) it never went out; No more shall Grace dye, or be totally extinguished in a Believing soul: Hence true Grace is compared unto living (i. e. spring) water, which never runs dry: yea to great Rivers in respect of their perennity. Great Ri-Rivers ⟨p. 176⟩are always running from the beginning of the World to the end thereof; So is true Saving Grace of an Everlasting Nature, Isa. 41.18.
The Truth is evident in that the Blessing here spoken of, is an everlasting Blessing. Eternal good things are the Cheif: So is this blessing of the Spirit, upon whom he is poured, upon them & in them, he remaineth for evermore. The Hebrew word [Jatzak] which is here translated Pour, signifieth to Fasten, as well as to Pour: I will fasten my Spirit upon your children. That In-dwelling of the person of the Holy Ghost in believers, which the New-Testament speaketh so much of, is everlasting: He abideth with them and in them forever, Joh. 14.16. And the graces of the Spirit which he doth pour upon his People are everlasting: common gifts may cease, but special grace abideth to Eternity. It is a seed of God that is incorruptible which liveth and abideth forever,