Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…

Name: Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693

[6], 154 [i.e. 162] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 39k words · Evans 654 · Wing M1164

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PLAIN ADVICE. In Answer to that HARD QUESTION, Who are they that sh…: PLAIN ADVICE. In Answer to that HARD QUESTION, Who are they that shall be Saved?

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.

[ Earlier:146–161 of 228

:146p. 108

Concerning this Illustrious BOOK of Life, there are two Assertions to be Advanced, for the Introducing of the most weighty Case, that ever demanded your meditations.

:147p. 108–109

One Assertion is, That no man having His Name once written in the BOOK of Life, shall or can, ever have it Blotted out again. Gods BOOK will never have any Blot: but it is the Purpose and Promise of God concerning eve•y man, that has his Name in that BOOK, Rev. 8.5. I will not Blot his name out of the Book of Life. If a Mortal Man could say concerning what he had written on the Cross of our Lord, What • have written, I have written: Much more will the Immortal God say, upon what He hath written in His Book about them ⟨p. 109⟩that are to have Life, by the Death of our Lord, on that Cross, What I have Written, I have Written; and it shall never be Liable to the Least Obliteration. This was the Old Austins way of arguing.

:148p. 109–110

'Tis true, that Moses pleading for Sinful Israel, said, in Exod. 32.33. If thou wilt, Forgive their Sin, and if not, Blot me, I pray thee, out of this Book, which thou hast Written: I Insist not on that which many, and especially Jewish Interpreters, assign as the meaning of those words; That they refer to the Book of the Law, or the Pentateuch, where the Name of Moses does Live Renowned unto all Generations; q. d. I am willing it should never be Read or Known, that there was a man of my Name in the World. But it is possible, that the Man of God, might refer to the Book of Life Temporal, not the Book of Life Eternal; there is a Book of Providence, which has in it the Names of such as are to Out-Live the Wasting Plagues, that are to come upon their Neighbours; now says Moses, Let me rather now Die my self, than that thy Name should be Dishonoured in thy Bloing out the Names of all this people from the Number of the Living. This was the sense, by Jerome and others of the Ancients put upon those words of Moses; and it is a Sense which the Context smiles very much

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