A call from heaven, to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse
Subtitle: 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: By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in N. England. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Edition: The second impression.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 393
Publisher: Printed by R.P. [i.e., Richard Pierce] for I. Brunning [i.e., Joseph Browning
Published: 1685
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Grace (Theology); Regeneration (Theology)
Notes: Also issued with an additional [2], 38 p. at end: Mather, Increase. A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston ... when two men were executed, who had murthered their master) ... Boston, 1685 (Evans 394). Cf. Holmes 174-B.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Increase Mather" in title.

Error in paging: p. 133 misnumbered 123.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [8].

"A discourse concerning the danger of apostacy ... 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."--p. 45-131, with separate title page.

A sermon on Ecclesiastes XII, p. 133-159.

"Pray for the rising generation ... the third impression ... "--p. [161]-198, with separate title page.

Evans 393

Wing (2nd ed.) M1191

Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, 19-B

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