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Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled in a discourse designed for the service of any that may be thereby assisted in the grand concern of conversion unto God; but especially the rising generation. : With an addition of some other sermons relating to that important subject. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Five lines from Ezekiel]
Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE.
Twere more charitable to Bewail it, than it looks Uncharitably to Suspect it, that our Country is become like that Valley, whereof we Read in Ezek. 37.1, 2. That it was, A Valley full of Bones, that were very dry. The Dry Bones there, are too like the Dead Souls here; the Subjects of the Blackest Calamities, the Objects of the greatest Compassions, because of their Estrangement from Him, Whom to know is Life Eternal. Our Land is in the Divine Dispensations dealt withal as if it were Unclean, & is it not the multitude of, The Dead, among us, that makes it so? Yea so generally and unhappily extended is the Number of them, who were never yet Converted unto God, that we may fear whether we are not under a plague beyond that of Egypt, when there was One ⟨p. 2⟩Dead in every House, And now what shall be done for them? Truly, The way which the God of Heaven prescribed, is now to be used on the beh•l• of These: Prophesy over them! Wherefore in the Name of the Almighty God, Let me now say, O ye Dry Bones▪ O ye Dead Soul▪ Hear the Word of the Lord. But the Word which now more particularly demands your Attention, is That in
TWere more charitable to Bewayl it, than it looks Uncharitably to Suspect it, that our Countrey is become like that Valley, whereof we Read in Ezek. 37.1, 2. That it was, A Valley full of Bones, that were very dry. The Dry Bones there, are too like the Dead Souls here; the Subjects of the Blackest Calamities, the Objects of the greatest Compassions, because of their Estrangement from Him, Whom to know is Life Eternal. Our Land is in the Divine Dispensations dealt withal as if it were Unclean, & is it not the multitude of, The Dead, among us, that makes it so? Yea so generally and unhappily extended is the Number of them, who were never yet Converted unto God, that we may fear whether we are not under a plague beyond that of Egypt, when there was One