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.

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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).