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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.
Secondly, It is with a fervent Petition to the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to Come unto Him. The posture wherein we should come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, is upon our Knees: and we should present ⟨p. 85⟩our prayers before him, as did the leper, in Marc. 1.40. He came to him, Beseeching Him, and kneeling down to him. Tis in the Quality of Petitioners; yea, and of Poor ones too, that we are to sue unto our Lord Jesus Christ, when we come unto him. As a Beggar Petitions for an Alms, or, as a Prisoner for his Life, so are we to Importune of our Lord Jesus Christ; that He would be concerned for our good. The Petitions with which the miserable besought the healing miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the days of His flesh, are to be imitated in the Requests which we should make unto Him for our Souls. We are to entreat of Him, Lord, I am so Blind, that I cannot see the things of my Peace; Help this Blindness! We are to Entreat of Him, Lord, I am so Lame, that I cannot Run the Way of thy Commandments; Help this Lameness! We are to entreat, Lord, I have a Soul grievously vexed with the Devil; O cast this evil Spirit out. Yea, we are to entreat, Lord, I am Dead in Trespasses and sins; O thou that canst Raise the Dead, Make my Soul to Live! This is fit Language to visit a Jesus
Secondly, It is with a fervent Petition to the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to Come unto Him. The posture wherein we should come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, is upon our Knees: and we should present ⟨p. 85⟩our prayers before him, as did the leper, in Marc. 1.40. He came to him, Beseeching Him, and kneeling down to him. Tis in the Quality of Petitioners; yea, and of Poor ones too, that we are to sue unto our Lord Jesus Christ, when we come unto him. As a Beggar Petitions for an Alms, or, as a Prisoner for his Life, so are we to Importune of our Lord Jesus Christ; that He would be concerned for our good. The Petitions with which the miserable besought the healing miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the days of His flesh, are to be imitated in the Requests which we should make unto Him for our Souls. We are to intreat of Him, Lord, I am so Blind, that I cannot see the things of my Peace; Help this Blindness! We are to Entreat of Him, Lord, I am so Lame, that I cannot Run the Way of thy Commandments; Help this Lameness! We are to intreat, Lord, I have a Soul grievously vexed with the Divel; O cast this evil Spirit out. Yea, we are to entreat, Lord, I am Dead in Trespasses and sins; O thou that canst Raise the Dead, Make my Soul to Live! This is fitt Language to visit a Jesus