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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II. In Coming to our Lord Jesus Christ, we must seek and ask for the Whole of that Salvation, which He has to bestow upon us. It is no sinful Selfishness for us, to propound our own Salvation, in our Coming unto the Lord Jesus Christ; nor should we be discouraged about the Sincerity of our Coming, because we therein acted for our own Salvation. The Honour and Glory of God is enwrapped so in our Salvation, that we shall do amiss if we go to Separate them: I may say, What God has thus Joined, Let no man put asunder! Yea, a man should not forbear Coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, although' he can see nothing, but Self, stirring him thereunto; Let him come, tho' it be at first upon Meaner Ends; that will be the way for him to obtain an Impression of Nobler Ends upon him, when he shall come again. However, what is to be, The End of our Faith? 'tis to be, The Salvation of the Soul. Why then, Let us be sure therein to propound unto our selves, the Enjoyment of ALL that Salvation. As it was of old said, Is Christ Divided? so we must make no Division of that Salvation, for which the Lord Jesus Christ is to be Sued unto. Even the Murderers of our Lord, were averse unto ⟨p. 81⟩Dividing of his Garments; and Believers on our Lord are as averse unto the Dividing of His Mercies, Well then, Let us ponder with our selves, what a Priest, what a Prophet, what a King, our Lord-Redeemer is, and let us beseech Him, to Be such an One, and to Do all that is to be done by such an One for our Souls.

II. In Coming to our Lord Jesus Christ, we must seek and ask for the Whole of that Salvation, which He has to bestow upon us. It is no sinful Selfishness for us, to propound our own Salvation, in our Coming unto the Lord Jesus Christ; nor should we be discouraged about the Sincerity of our Coming, because we therein acted for our own Salvation. The Honour and Glory of God is enwrap'd so in our Salvation, that we shall do amiss if we go to Separate them: I may say, What God has thus Joyned, Let no man put asunder! Yea, a man should not forbear Coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, altho' he can see nothing, but Self, stirring him thereunto; Let him come, tho' it be at first upon Meaner Ends; that will be the way for him to obtain an Impression of Nobler Ends upon him, when he shall come again. However, what is to be, The End of our Faith? 'tis to be, The Salvation of the Soul. Why then, Let us be sure therein to propound unto our selves, the Enjoyment of ALL that Salvation. As it was of old said, Is Christ Divided? so we must make no Division of that Salvation, for which the Lord Jesus Christ is to be Sued unto. Even the Murderers of our Lord, were averse unto

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