N00318:98
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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But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed ▪ I conceive the Psalmist in those words hath [c]respect to the sad Change of Providence which befell the Lords People in Rehoboam'• time, for that psalm was written by Ethan ▪ who was contemporary with Solomon, & probably lived to see the woeful Changes which happened five years after Solomons death, whe• the Land was invaded and sorely wasted by Heathen Enemies, and some (tho not all) of the wrath of God Poured out upon his people, and upon the apostatized Children of David▪ Strong holds were brought to ruin, and they did not stand in the day of Battle as in former times they had done, now these temporal Judgements are called a Casting off.
But thou hast cast off and ab•horred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed ▪ I conceive the Psalmist in those words hath [c]respect to the sad Change of Providenc• which befel the Lords People in Rehoboam'• time, for that psalm was written by Ethan ▪ who was contemporary with Solomon, & probably lived to see the woful Changes which hapned five years after Solomons death, whe• the Land was invaded and sorely wasted by Heathen Enemies, and some (tho not all) of the wrath of God Poured out upon his people, and upon the apostatized Children of David▪ Strong holds were brought to ruin, and they did not stand in the day of Battle as in former times they had done, now these temporal Judgements are called a Casting off.
- [c]Ford in locum.