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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.
First, We are to Cry that God would help us to come. When we are advised of such a thing as that in John. 6.44. No man can come unto me, Except the Father which hath sent me, Draw Him: It becomes us then humbly and warmly, to make that moan unto him, in Cant. 5.4. O Draw me! We cannot come to the Lord Jesus Christ, until we Turn; but how should we do That? That we may Turn, the way is to Cry; make that Cry, in Jer. •1.18. Turn thou me, and I shall be Turned. O Lie before the Lord, and mourn before him, saying, Lord, I perish, and it is Just I should perish, if I do not come unto thee; but yet I cannot come; a Stone may as soon fly to Heaven, and become a Star in Heaven, as I of my self come to my Heavenly Lord; O do thou then Help me to come, and so Grace, Grace, will have all the Glory.
First, We are to Cry that God would help us to come. When we are advised of such a thing as that in John. 6.44. No man can come unto me, Except the Father which hath sent me, Draw Him: It becomes us then humbly and warmly, to make that moan unto him, in Cant. 5.4. O Draw me! We cannot come to the Lord Jesus Christ, until we Turn; but how should we do That? That we may Turn, the way is to Cry; make that Cry, in Jer. •1.18. Turn thou me, and I shall be Turned. O Ly before the Lord, and mourn before him, saying, Lord, I perish, and it is Just I should perish, if I do not come unto thee; but yet I cannot come; a Stone may as soon fly to Heaven, and become a Star in Heaven, as I of my self come to my Heavenly Lord; O do thou then Help me to come, and so Grace, Grace, will have all the Glory.
Secondly; Now Try whether God will not help us to come Attempt, I say; See, as the well-disposed man, at length got so far as in