A call from heaven, to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse [microform] : 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. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts].

Author:: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
Published:: Boston : Printed by R.P. [i.e., Richard Pierce] for I. Brunning [i.e., Joseph Browning], 1685.
Edition:: The second impression.
Physical Description:: 8 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Additional Creators:: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

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"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.
"Pray for the rising generation ... the third impression ... "--p. [161]-198, with separate title page.
A sermon on Ecclesiastes XII, p. 133-159.
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.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [8].
Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Increase Mather" in title.
Error in paging: p. 133 misnumbered 123.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 393).

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Evans, C. American bibliography, 393
Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, 19-B
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) M1191

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