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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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The Roman Historian Reports, that the Son of a Senator, understanding certain Honours to be decreed by the Senate for certain Soldiers, whose Names were for that cause written in a Book, he begged of his Father to let him see the Book, or to tell him at least, whether his Name were in the Book? His Father told him, These were Secrets; whereupon the Son asked, Pray, Sir, tell me the General Qualifications of them, that have their Names in the Book, which when the Father did, the Son perceived himself to be none of them. Truly, ⟨p. 116⟩The Book of Life, is One of the, Secret Things which belong unto the Lord; it were a vain and a mad curiosity, to think of Climbing Heaven for a view of That; we may say of it, I cannot Read, for lo, the Book is a sealed Book; but the Qualifications of them that may know their Names written in that Book, These are the Revealed Things, which belong unto us, and unto our Children. Attend, then, while I set Them a little before you; Attend, while I show you, what is like to become of you throughout Eternal Ages.
The Roman Historian Reports, that the Son of a Senator, understanding certain Honours to be decreed by the Senate for certain Souldiers, whose Names were for that cause written in a Book, he begg'd of his Father to let him see the Book, or to tell him at least, whether his Name were in the Book? His Father told him, These were Secrets; whereupon the Son asked, Pray, Sir, tell me the General Qualifications of them, that have their Names in the Book, which when the Father did, the Son perceived himself to be none of them. Truly, ⟨p. 116⟩The Book of Life, is One of the, Secret Things which belong unto the Lord; it were a vain and a mad curiosity, to think of Climbing Heaven for a view of That; we may say of it, I cannot Read, for lo, the Book is a sealed Book; but the Qualifications of them that may know their Names written in that Book, These are the Revealed Things, which belong unto us, and unto our Children. Attend, then, while I set Them a little before you; Attend, while I show you, what is like to become of you throughout Eternal Ages.