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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.
and that it may be Infinite upon you, it must be no less than Eternal Possibly, you thought it very tediously Long, to be detained an Hour at a Sermon or ⟨p. 102⟩a Prayer, wherein a Coming to the Lo•• Jesus Christ was prosecuted; but it shall now be Requi•ed with a Banishment from that Gracious Lord, into an Everlasting Destruction, and into an Everlasting Punishment; a Destruction and a Punishment, the Duration whereof could not be comprised, in a Scroll as big as the starry Heaven, all Filled with Figures of Nine, unto the utmost Edges of it! Yea, but with whom? Truly, With the Devil and his Angels. Because you would not come unto the Lord, that would have Recovered you out of your Apostasy, you shall now be confirmed in that Apostasy, among those Irrecoverable Apostates, the Devils whose, Redemption ceaseth for ever. 'Twas because you Listened unto the Devils and his Children, that you would not come unto the Lord Jesus Christ; it shall now be Revenged by your being bidden to Go with, The Devil and his Angels. You would not give the Good Angels, the satisfaction of seeing you pay a due Homage unto that Lord, whom, •ll the Angels of God worship; and so […] must be now Lodged among the Evil Angels; They whose Captives, and •ome•slaves, you h•ve been, must now be with you, confined in the same Fiery Prison. You scorned the only Cure for the cruel Bite, which the Old Serpent had given you▪ and now, you ⟨p. 103⟩must be, Broken in the place of Dragons; and be Nested where the freckled Adders of the Pit will be Crawling and Coiling about you, world without End.
and that it may be Infinite upon you, it must be no less than Eternal Possibly, you thought it very tediously Long, to be detained an Hour at a Sermon or ⟨p. 102⟩a Prayer, wherein a Coming to the Lo•• Jesus Christ was prosecuted; but it shall now be Requied with a Banishment from that Gracious Lord, into an Everlasting Destruction, and into an Everlasting Punishment; a Destruction and a Punishment, the Duration whereof could not be comprised, in a Scrowl as big as the starry Heaven, all Fill'd with Figures of Nine, unto the utmost Edges of it! Yea, but with whom? Truly, With the Devil and his Angels. Because you would not come unto the Lord, that would have Recovered you out of your Apostasy, you shall now be confirmed in that Apostasy, among those Irrecoverable Apostates, the Devils whose, Redemption ceaseth for ever. 'Twas because you Listened unto the Devils and his Children, that you would not come unto the Lord Jesus Christ; it shall now be Revenged by your being bidden to Go with, The Devil and his Angels. You would not give the Good Angels, the satisfaction of seeing you pay a due Homage unto that Lord, whom, ll the Angels of God worship; and so must be now Lodged among the Evil Angels; They whose Captives, and omeslaves, you hve been, must now be with you, confined in the same Fiery Prison. You scorned the only Cure for the cruel Bite, which the Old Serpent had given you and now, you