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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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How much more will the blessed God pardon you and accept you into his favour, all your Rebellions notwithstanding, if indeed you sincerely seek unto him! Yea, and God will bless you when your parents shall be taken from you, he will then be a Father to you, Psal. 27.10. When my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up. viz. as a tender-hearted Father takes his child up into his arms and beareth him in his bosom. It is therefore said concerning the just man that his Children are blessed after him, Prov. 20.7. And Jacob told his sons that tho' he died, God would be with them, Gen. 48.11. It is also noted concerning Isaac, that God blessed him after the death of his Father Abraham, Gen. 25.11. Not but that the Lord blessed him before that, only after his Fathers death the blessing of the Lord was upon him more then ever.
How much more will the blessed God pardon you and accept you into his favour, all your Rebellions notwithstanding, if indeed you sincerely seek unto him! Yea, and God will bless you when your parents shall be taken from you, he will then be a Father to you, Psal. 27.10. When my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up. viz. as a tender-hearted Father takes his child up into his armes and beareth him in his bosome. It is therefore said concerning the just man that his Children are blessed after him, Prov. 20.7. And Jacob told his sons that tho' he died, God would be with them, Gen. 48.11. It is also noted concerning Isaac, that God blessed him after the death of his Father Abraham, Gen. 25.11. Not but that the Lord blessed him before that, only after his Fathers death the blessing of the Lord was upon him more then ever.