Research Catalog

Title

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. By Increase Mather ...

Author

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Publication

Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1679.

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Additional Authors

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Description

4 p. l., 114 p., 3 l. 5-29 p., 1 l.; 15 cm. (8vo.).

Subjects

• Sermons
• Massachusetts > Elections > Sermons, 1677

Note

• "A Discourse Concerning the Danger of Apostasy ... Delivered in a Sermon, preached in the Audience of the general Assembly of the Massachusets Colony, at Boston in New-England, May 23. 1677. being the day of Election there. By Increase Mather ... Boston, Printed in the Year, 1679," 1 l., p. 35-94; Sermon on "Eccles. XII.I. Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth," p. 95-114; "Pray for the Rising Generation ... The second Impression. By Increase Mather ... Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1679," 2 l., 5-29 p. at end.

Indexed In (note)

• Evans
• Holmes

Call Number

*KD 1679 (Mather, I. Call from Heaven To the Present and Succeeding Generations)

OCLC

43553696

Author

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Title

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. By Increase Mather ...

Imprint

Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1679.

Indexed In:

Evans 274, 275

Holmes 19-A

Local Note

Imperfect: t.-p. wanting, supplied by photostat reproduction; last leaf (blank) wanting.

In the New York Public Library copy, "Pray for the Rising Generation" is bound before "A Call from Heaven."

With bookplate of Henry Francis Lyte.

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Added Author

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Discourse concerning the danger of apostasy.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Remember now thy creator in the dayes of thy youth.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Pray for the rising generation.

Research Call Number

*KD 1679 (Mather, I. Call from Heaven To the Present and Succeeding Generations)