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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.
GOOD COUNSEL In Answer to the GREAT QUESTION; What shall I do to be… › Conclusion: The CLOSE.
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.
If any of you, do after all the Invitations of the Lord, continue still The Children of Unpersuadableness, Think, in Gods Name Think, what will ensue upon it? Although' He say, Come, yet there are those who rather choose to Go; they Go away one to his Farm another to his Merchandise. But will you attend unto the Sentence which in the Terrible Day of God, the Lord Jesus Christ will pass upon these, after He has raised them to▪ Shame and everlasting contempt. Every Syllable will be a Thunder-Bolt.
If any of you, do after all the Invitations of the Lord, continue still The Children of Unperswadableness, Think, in Gods Name Think, what will ensue upon it? Altho' He say, Come, yet there are those who rather choose to Go; they Go away one to his Farm another to his Merchandise. But will you attend unto the Sentence which in the Terrible Day of God, the Lord Jesus Christ will pass upon these, after He has raised them to▪ Shame and everlasting contempt. Every Syllable will be a Thunder-Bolt.
GO FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED ⟨p. 100⟩FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.
You that would not, Come to Him, shall now Go from him: as you, like the Gadarenes, have said unto him, Go, He will now say the Like to you: you sent Him away when He stood and knocked at the Door, of your Souls; and now He'll send you away, tho' at the Door of Heaven you stand and cry, Lord, Lord, open to me! Go! but you'll Beg, Shall I not be Blest before I go! No; you that would not Come to Him for a Blessing, shall now Go from Him, with a Curse: you would not Come to Him, that was made a Curse for us, and now you shall Go from Him with a Curse lying upon yourselves. The Written Word, and the Preached Word, would not move you,; and now the Flying Roll must Smite you. You have slighted the Breath of the Lord, which called upon you to Come unto himself; and now you shall be sent from him into a Fire, which the Breath of the Lord, shall as a Stream of Brimstone, forever kindle. Your Souls will now be filled and vexed with Furious Reflections upon your former Infidelity; and will be as it were on a Light Fire under the wrath of God for your Impiety. You Resisted the Spirit of God, when He would have been Melting of you to a Compliance with the Lord of Heaven; but that Abused