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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
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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: Joh. 3 14. We know that we have passed from Death to Life; and this knowledge may assure them, that they have Names Written in the Book of Life. It was the assurance of a Job, I know that my Redeemer lives. But such a man may be also assured, that his Redeemer has written him among ⟨p. 115⟩them that are to be Redeemed. It was the assurance of a David, The Lord is my Shepherd; but such a Man may be also assured, that the Great Shepherd has written him, among the sheep of his Right-Hand. It was the assurance of a Paul, The Son of God has loved me; but he was then likewise assured of a Room in the Book as well as in the Heart of that Blessed Lord.
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