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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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Something let me speak by way of Direction: briefly.
1. Be thankful to the Lord in that he hath given you to be born of godly parents: in that you ⟨p. 42⟩have bin (as David speaketh) cast upon the Lord from the womb, & he hath been your God from your mothers belly, Psal. 22.10. You might have been born of such Parents as would have nursed you up in ignorance, Profaneness or Idolatry, and so your souls have been under a necessity of perishing for ever; but the Lord hath given you to be born of parents that have designed you for God, and for his Glory. Yea it was for your sakes especially, that your Fathers ventured their lives upon the rude waves of the vast Ocean. Was it not with respect unto Posterity that our Fathers came into this Wilderness, that they might train up a Generation for Christ? Bless God that ever you had such Fathers.
1. Be thankful to the Lord in that he hath given you to be born of godly parents: in that you ⟨p. 42⟩have bin (as David speaketh) cast upon the Lord from the womb, & he hath been your God from your mothers belly, Psal. 22.10. You might have been born of such Parents as would have nursed you up in ignorance, Profaness or Idolatry, and so your souls have been under a necessity of perishing for ever; but the Lord hath given you to be born of parents that have designed you for God, and for his Glory. Yea it was for your sakes especially, that your Fathers ventured their lives upon the rude waves of the vast Ocean. Was it not with respect unto Posterity that our Fathers came into this Wilderness, that they might train up a Generation for Christ? Bless God that ever you had such Fathers.