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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. 1. When may men be said to forsake the Lord?
Answ. 1. When they depart from the blessed Truths of God, then they may be said to forsake him. Hence the Apostle chargeth it upon the apostatizing Galatians that they were removed from him that called them Chap. 1.6. h. e. they had forsaken God himself, because they had corrupted and forsaken the great Truths of the Gospel. All Truth is from God, therefore he is styled the God of Truth, Did. 32.4. […], Truth, it self, 1. Joh. 5.6. And Truth is said to be his Name. Christ said to his faithful ones in the Church of Pergamus, thou holdest ••st my Name. Rev. 2.13. The Truths of Christ were much opposed by the Infidels, ⟨p. 55⟩and by the Heretics of those days, only some did faithfully adhere thereunto; and these are said to hold fast his Name. so then to forsake the Truth, is to forsake the Lord's Name. Especially when there is Apostasy from great foundation-Truths in Religion, the Lord is forsaken. Albeit every truth hath the Name of God stamped upon it, yet there are some Truths which have more of his Name on them than others have, that the disowning of them is absolutely to reject the Lord, namely Fundamental Truths, which indeed are not many nor hard to be known. Moreover when those Truths are disowned by children, which their Fathers were eminently engaged in the profession of, (tho' they should not be fundamental as in their natures) such Children may be said to forsake the Lord.
Answ. 1. When they depart from the blessed Truths of God, then they may be said to forsake him. Hence the Apostle chargeth it upon the apostatizing Galatians that they were removed from him that called them Chap. 1.6. h. e. they had forsaken God himself, because they had corrupted and forsaken the great Truths of the Gospel. All Truth is from God, therefore he is styled the God of Truth, Did. 32.4. 〈…〉, Truth, it self,