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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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2. Let me Exhort Children that are here before the Lord this day; O do you go home, and pray earnestly for converting grace. Beg as for your lives that the God of your Fathers would pour his Spirit upon you: Young ones, hearken! In the Name of the Lord I speak to you; The Lord can pour his Spirit on you betimes, then shall you be rich in grace, let this promise encourage you to look up to God in Jesus Christ. Go into secret corners, and plead it with God, say, Lord thou hast Promised to pour thy Spirit upon the offspring of thy servants, I am (through thy Grace) among the children of thy Servants, thou art the God of my Father, the God of my Grand-Father, oh, be my God also. If you seek ⟨p. 197⟩God in earnest he will be found of you, but if you forsake him and break his covenant sealed in your Baptism, woe unto you! If you dye and be not first new creatures, better you had never been born, you will be left without Excuse before the Lord. Terrible witnesses will arise against you at the last day: Your godly Parents will testify against you before the Son of God at that day: and the Ministers of Christ will also be called in as witnesses against you for your Condemnation if you dye in your sins.
2. Let me Exhort Children that are here before the Lord this day; O do you goe home, and pray earnestly for converting grace. Beg as for your lives that the God of your Fathers would pour his Spirit upon you: Young ones, hearken! In the Name of the Lord I speak to you; The Lord can pour his Spirit on you betimes, then shall you be rich in grace, let this promise encourage you to look up to God in Jesus Christ. Go into secret corners, and plead it with God, say, Lord thou hast Promised to pour thy Spirit upon the offspring of thy servants, I am (through thy Grace) among the children of thy Servants, thou art the God of my Father, the God of my Grand-Father, oh, be my God also. If you seek ⟨p. 197⟩God in earnest he will be found of you, but if you forsake him and break his covenant sealed in your Baptism, woe unto you! If you dye and be not first new creatures, better you had never been born, you will be left without Excuse before the Lord. Terrible witnesses will arise against you at the last day: Your godly Parents will testify against you before the Son of God at that day: and the Ministers of Christ will also be call'd in as witnesses against you for your Condemnation if you dye in your sins.