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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
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Once more, Tis for Government, and Protection, that our Lord Jesus Christ must be come unto. We are to come unto him, as he is described Psal. 2.6. The King upon the Holy hill of Zion. He puts that on us, Art thou willing that I should be a King unto thee? and we should immediately submit unto him, as the King, the Lord, the Law-giver, that is to save us; there withal spreading That, as the wish of our Souls before Him, in Psal. 119.5. O that ⟨p. 83⟩my ways were directed to keep thy Statutes! We must come unto him, that He would Bless us, by Turning us every one from our Iniquities; Come unto Him, that he would Sanctify us throughout in Spirit and Soul and Body, and preserve us Blameless to his Heavenly Kingdom: Come unto him, that we may be Ruled by the Sceptre of his Righteousness; and made Conquerors and more than Conquerors, over our Spiritual Adversaries. And thus, we are to take an Oath of Fidelity unto our Lord, Vowing that we will Fight under his Banners, and Begging that he would make us Faithful to the Death.
Once more, Tis for Government, and Protection, that our Lord Jesus Christ must be come unto. We are to come unto him, as he is described Psal. 2.6. The King upon the Holy hill of Zion. He puts that on us, Art thou willing that I should be a King unto thee? and we should immediately submit unto him, as the King, the Lord, the Law-giver, that is to save us; there withal spreading That, as the wish of our Souls before Him, in Psal. 119.5. O that ⟨p. 83⟩my ways were directed to keep thy Statutes! We must come unto him, that He would Bless us, by Turning us every one from our Iniquities; Come unto Him, that he would Sanctify us throughout in Spirit and Soul and Body, and preserve us Blameless to his Heavenly Kingdome: Come unto him, that we may be Ruled by the Scepter of his Righteousness; and made Conquerors and more than Conquerors, over our Spiritual Adversaries. And thus, we are to take an Oath of Fidelity unto our Lord, Vowing that we will Fight under his Banners, and Begging that he would make us Faithful to the Death.