Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…

Name: Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693

[6], 154 [i.e. 162] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 39k words · Evans 654 · Wing M1164

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GOOD COUNSEL In Answer to the GREAT QUESTION; What shall I do to be…: GOOD COUNSEL In Answer to the GREAT QUESTION; What shall I do to be Saved?

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But then, Thirdly, 'Tis requisite that we become Desirous of a Remedy for our Misery. And since 'tis the Lord Jesus Christ alone, who says unto us, In me is thy He•p, 'tis after our Lord Jesus Christ, that ou• Souls are to cry, with Raging Agonies. ⟨p. 79⟩The Christ-ward Inclinations of our Souls are to be those in Psal. 42.12. As the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks▪ so panteth my Soul after thee, O God. My Soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God. We must be willing to Attend any Thing, to Fore go any Thing, to Deny our selves of any thing, which in our Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ is called for. What the Martyr in the Flames cried out, None but Christ, None but Christ! That must the Inflamed Soul of the Sinner cry, tho' all the Pleasures, and all the Riches, and all the Honours of this World should be set before him; A Christ! A Christ! for an Undone Soul; or else I am Irrecoverably Undone! Never did the Drowning An•ediluvians more wish for, An Ark! Never did a pursued Man-Slayer more wi•h for, A Refuge City; Never did a poisoned Israelite more wish for, A Brazen Serpent; than we are to wish for the Sure Mercies of our Lord Jesus Christ. As David Longed, in 2 Sam. 23.15. Oh that one would give me to Drink of the Water of the Well of Bethlehem! So must we Long for all Union and a Fellowship, with that Messiah, who was Born at Bethlehem; and say, O that I had a Christ, for the Satisfaction of a needy Soul.

But then, Thirdly, 'Tis requisite that we become Desirous of a Remedy for our Misery. And since 'tis the Lord Jesus Christ alone, who says unto us, In me is thy He•p, 'tis after our Lord Jesus Christ, that ou• Souls are to cry, with Raging Agonies. ⟨p. 79⟩The Christ-ward Inclinations of our Souls are to be those in Psal. 42.12. As the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks▪ so panteth my Soul after thee, O God. My Soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God. We must be willing to Attend any Thing, to Fore go any Thing, to Deny our selves of any thing, which in our Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ is called for. What the Martyr in the Flames cry'd out, None but Christ, None but Christ! That must the Enflamed Soul of the Sinner cry, tho' all the Pleasures, and all the Riches, and all the Honours of this World should be set before him; A Christ! A Christ! for an Undone Soul; or else I am Irrecoverably Undone! Never did the Drowning Anediluvians more wish for, An Ark! Never did a pursued Man-Slayer more wih for, A Refuge City; Never did a poisoned Israelite more wish for, A Brazen Serpent; than we are to wish for the Sure Mercies of our Lord Jesus Christ. As David Longed, in

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