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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In short, If any Name could be Really Blotted out from the Book of Life, it must be, either, because that God knows not certainly who will come unto Life Eternal at the last, or, because God could not confer the Grace, which is Necessary to bring them unto that Life. But, it is fit, that such Pelagian, Arminian, Socinian, Blasphemies, become Abominable among the People of God.

:152p. 113

But then, a Second Assertion is,

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That a man, having his Name written in the Book of Life, may by a Blessed Assurance of it, be able to Read it there. Our Lord, said once unto His Disciples, in Luc. 10.20: Rejoice, because your Names are written in Heaven; and this is one of those things whereto He would have that Rule applied, What I say to you, I say to all. So then a Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ on earth may with ⟨p. 114⟩Joy unspeakable see his Name written, In Heaven, among them that, For Heaven, at the last. Why are we enjoined, in 2. Pet. 1 10 Give Diligence to make your Election sure. 'Tis not a certainty of the Object, but a certainty of the Subject, that we are directed unto the pursuance of: A man by diligence in the Exercise of all virtue may come to be sure of this, I have my Name Written among the Eternally Elected of God. The Inseparable consequents of a Name written in the Book of Life, may be known by them, that have them. The Grace of God, wrought in the hearts of them that have their Names in the Book of God; this is a discernible sort of a Thing; tis compared unto Fire, unto Light, unto Life, which make themselves evident where they are. One Good man has before now been able to say, Lord, I believe. Another Good man has been able to say, Lord, thou knowest that I Love thee. Yea, but they that are assured of such Things, may readily tell, where their Names are to be found. Good men may come to say, as in 1:

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