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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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VI. Because we have hearts most unaccountably Loth to come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, we should lay before our selves all sit Incentives, to Provoke us, and Excite us thereunto. Tis Prodigious; but yet it is Notorious; There is nothing in the world ⟨p. 93⟩whereto we are more Indisposed, than unto Believing unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Alas▪ How often do we put our Lord, upon making that Lamentation over us, in Mat. 23.37. Ye would not! But it becomes us therefore to stir and spur up our own Souls, with very penetrating Thoughts upon this matter, till having no other way to betake our selves but un•• the Lord Jesus Christ, we are Shut up unto the Faith. May we then Retire, and ponder upon this Path of Life! There,
VI. Because we have hearts most unaccountably Lothe to come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, we should lay before our selves all sit Incentives, to Provoke us, and Excite us thereunto. Tis Prodigious; but yet it is Notorious; There is nothing in the world ⟨p. 93⟩whereto we are more Indisposed, than unto Believing unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Alas▪ How often do we put our Lord, upon making that Lamentation over us, in Mat. 23.37. Ye would not! But it becomes us therefore to stir and spur up our own Souls, with very penetrating Thoughts upon this matter, till having no other way to betake our selves but un•• the Lord Jesus Christ, we are Shut up unto the Faith. May we then Retire, and ponder upon this Path of Life! There,
Let our first Consideration be This: Who is it, that Invites thee, O my Soul, yea, who is it, that Requires thee to come unto Him! It is no Less an One than the King of Heaven, the Lord of Glory, and the Son of God. O Heart of Adamant, that can Refuse the Favours of such an Illustrious Monarch! 'Tis a greater than the Emperor of the World, that Holds out His Golden Sceptre unto us; and says, Come, Sinners, you may Come and Live! 'Tis He that is, Mighty to Save, who bids us to Draw near unto Him, that we may be Saved by Him; 'Tis He that is the Desire of all Nations, who Desires us, that we would but be willing to be Saved. This Great Person, whom all the Angels in Heaven Worship, 'tis He that has called for our coming unto Him; and He has