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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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Or if his holy Ordinances be Corrupted, then the Lord is forsaken. And it is so when men will be adding their Inventions to Gods Institutions. Psal. 106.39. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own Inventions. When men follow their own inventions, they go a whoring from the Lord▪ of this nature were the high places of Old, 2. Chon. 33.17. The people did sacrifice in the high places, yet to the Lord ⟨p. 58⟩their God only. †Those high places were lawful to worship God in until the Temple was built, but after that, it was a breach of the second Commandment to place any religion in them, and therefore in some Degree a Departure from the Lord. If Fathers have prized Ordinances above the world, and endeavoured to uphold them in their power and purity, but their children after them shall not regard whether they enjoy the ordinances of Christ or no, or if they do, shall not be careful and studious to keep them pure, according to Scripture Rule, they fall under this dreadful Charge o• Apostasy from God.
Or if his holy Ordinances be Corrupted, then the Lord is forsaken. And it is so when men will be adding their Inventions to Gods Institutions. Psal. 106.39. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own Inventions. When men follow their own inventions, they go a whoring from the Lord▪ of this nature were the high places of Old, 2. Chon. 33.17. The people did sacrifice in the high places, yet to the Lord ⟨p. 58⟩their God only. †Those high places were lawful to worship God in until the Temple was built, but after that, it was a breach of the second Commandment to place any religion in them, and therefore in some Degree a Departure from the Lord. If Fathers have prized Ordinances above the world, and endeavoured to uphold them in their power and purity, but their children after them shall not regard whether they enjoy the ordinances of Christ or no, or if they do, shall not be careful and studious to keep them pure, according to Scripture Rule, they fall under this dreadful Charge o Apostacy from God.