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.
Contributors: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Feaver, Nicholas, -- d. 1674.; Driver, Robert, -- d. 1674.; Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Crime -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Murder -- Massachusetts.; Grace (Theology); Regeneration (Theology)
Notes: Signatures: Aþ́ B-Nı́ Oþ́ (O4 blank); A-Bı́ Cþ́.

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.

"A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th of the 1. moneth 1674. When two men were executed, who had murthered their master. ... By Increase Mather ..."--38 p., with separate title page. Also issued separately (Evans 394)

Evans 393.

Wing (2nd ed.) M1191.

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

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 393)