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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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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 Marc. 9.27. To say with Tears, Lord, I Believe, Help mine Unbelief! So, see whether you cannot say, Lord, now at Last I come! Lord, now at Last, I can trust my ⟨p. 89⟩Soul in thy Hands, for thee to make me Happy for ever. We find, that the man with a Withered Hand in Math. 12.13. when he Tried, could Stretch it out; Even so, Let us Try, whether the Withered Foot of our Souls be not Cured by the Sovereign Grace of God; and whether we cannot come to what we never could of our selves come unto.
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 Marc. 9.27. To say with Tears, Lord, I Believe, Help mine Unbelief! So, see whether you cannot say, Lord, now at Last I come! Lord, now at Last, I can trust my ⟨p. 89⟩Soul in thy Hands, for thee to make me Happy for ever. We find, that the man with a Withered Hand in Math. 12.13. when he Try'd, could Stretch it out; Even so, Let us Try, whether the Withered Foot of our Souls be not Cured by the Soveraign Grace of God; and whether we cannot come to what we never could of our selves come unto.
V. They that will come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, must Answer and Conquer all the Objections of unbelief, against coming to the Lord. You may be sure that when our Faces are once Christ-ward, many Obstacles will be cast before us, by An evil heart of unbelief. But as the ways to the City of Refuge, were Exactly and carefully cleared, among the Israelites of old, so must we do what we can to clear out of the way those things that might hinder us, in Flying for Refuge to the Hope set before us. As now,