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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.
PLAIN ADVICE. In Answer to that HARD QUESTION, Who are they that shall be Saved?
Rev. XX.XV, Whosoever was not found Written in the Book of Life, was cast into the Lake of Fire.
There is a Wonderful and a Notable World of Spirits, whereto we are all of us Travelling, through a ⟨p. 106⟩State of Probation, which our God has appointed for us; and that we may be assisted in our Preparation for that GREAT WORLD, it is necessary that we should be furnished with some true Notions of it. But while we are Clothed with Flesh, the Notions of Spiritual Concerns, are most easily conveyed unto us, by Metaphors fetched from such Objects, as do by our Flesh become sensible unto us; and the Beams of Light must come unto us from that Other World, with some Clothing from this upon them. Now Almighty God, Condescending in His Instructions to our Capacities, has been pleased Himself, to Intimate and as it were to Consecrate, certain Metaphors, for the use of our understandings, in shaping our Conceptions of such things as otherwise would be Unutterable, and He has pitched upon diverse things of common and famous use in Humane affairs, giving us this Direction thereupon, Make those things the Figures from whence your Thoughts are to take their Measures, when you go to apprehend, the Deep things of God.
THere is a Wonderful and a Notable World of Spirits, whereto we are all of us Travelling, through a ⟨p. 106⟩State of Probation, which our God has appointed for us; and that we may be assisted in our Preparation for that GREAT WORLD, it is necessary that we should be furnished with some true Notions of it. But while we are Clothed with Flesh, the Notions of Spiritual Concerns, are most easily conveyed unto us, by Metaphors fetch'd from such Objects, as do by our Flesh become sensible unto us; and the Beams of Light must come unto us from that Other World, with some Clothing from this upon them. Now Almighty God, Condescending in His Instructions to our Capacities, has been pleased Himself, to Intimate and as it were to Consecrate, certain Metaphors, for the use of our understandings, in shaping our Conceptions of such things as otherwise would be Unutterable, and He has pitched upon diverse things of common and famous use in Humane affairs, giving us this Direction thereupon, Make those things the Figures from whence your Thoughts are to take their Measures, when you go to apprehend, the Deep things of God.