A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse : wherin 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. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 274. Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 275. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Caption title: A call to the rising generation. Errors in paging: pages 60-64 and 104, 2nd count, and pages 23, 4th count, misnumbered 59, 59-62, 194, 13. Errata note, pages [8], 1st count. "A discourse concerning the danger of apostasy ... delivered in a sermon, preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusetts Colony ... May 23. 1677. being the day of election there."--pages [33]-94, with separate title page. A sermon on Ecclesiastes XII, pages 95-114. "Pray for the rising generation. Or A sermon wherein godly parents are encouraged to pray and believe for their children. Preached the third day of the fifth moneth, 1678, which day was set apart by the Second Church in Boston in New-England, humbly to seek unto God by fasting and prayer, for a spirit of converting grace to be poured out upon the children, and rising generation in New-England. The second impression. By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ..."--29, [1] pages at end, with separate title page (Evans 275; Wing, 2nd edition, M1239; Holmes 89-B). Cf. Holmes. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 114 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 14 cm. (octavo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |