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?

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There is indeed a Negative Deletion out of Gods Book, sometimes mentioned in the Oracles of God; but not, a Positive. When we Read such places, as Psal. 69.28. and Rev. 22.19. about mens being Blotted out of Gods Book, the meaning of it is, That God will make it appear, they have never been at all Written there. To affirm, that any one man, whom God hath Appointed not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ; may happen ⟨p. 111⟩afterwards to be Blotted out of the Glorious Last which the Decree of God has made of His Elect, this were a Tenet big with Many and Grievous Blasphemies. The Decree of God, indeed Orders a million of Things, that are Conditionate, one unto another; but the Decree it self is not Conditionate; no, it absolutely determines, as well the End, as all the Means Leading to that End. The God of Heaven has Decreed, that such and such men, shall arrive unto Eternal Blessedness; of all whom, I may say, as Paul about some of them, in Phil. 4.3. Their Names are in the Book of Life. But God has also Decreed that every one of these men shall certainly Repent, and certainly Believe, and in that way arrive to this Blessedness; nor can any one of these men, by perishing in Impenitent Unbelief, procure his Name to be Blotted out of that Book. The old Pagans feigned their Graces, to be all of them Linked unto each other, by an Indissoluble Chain. But the Connections between the Graces of our God, are still more Inseparable: you have them in Rom. 8:30: Whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also Justified; & whom He Justified, them He also Glorified. This, all of this Infallibly and Unfailingly comes of, A Name written in the Book of Life! The Stability of the ⟨p. 112⟩Divine Election, is a Thing every where affirmed, by the Author of that Election; a thousand Scriptures conspire to tell us, That the purpose of God, according to Election shall stand. I Remember, that Solomon says, in

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