N00526:162
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
III. Let the Written Book of God, have a due Entertainment with a man, and that will be a comfortable Token, that ⟨p. 121⟩he has his Name written in Gods Book. Our Bible here, is that BOOK, whereby the Religion of God, is maintained in the World. O set your Hands unto this Miraculous Book, saying, This do I Receive, as the Book of God and of Life. 'Tis the Sanction at the close of the Bible, in Rev. 22.1•. If any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy, GOD shall take away his part out of the Book of Life. Well then, would you be certain of • part in the Book of Life? Let this most Invaluable Book, in every part of it, be most invaluable with you. Visit this Book every day; and whatever Day you miss doing so, count that you han't seen the Sun that Day; that it has been a dark, a black, and cloudy Day. Repair s••ll to this Book, for all that you are to Believe, and for all that you are to Practise, in Religion, and evermore Give Heed unto this Book, as unto a Light shining in a Dark Place. As for all the Doctrines in this Book, say, These are all of them Faithful Sayings, & worthy of all Acceptation: Great is the Mystery of Godliness contained in them. As for all the Commandments in this Book, say, These are all of them▪ Holy, and Just, and Good; I count these Precepts concerning all things to be Right, and I would Hate every false way therein Re•••ed. As for all the ⟨p. 122⟩Promise• in this Book, say, These are all of them, great and precious? I have taken them for my Heritage, and they shall be the Rejoicing of my Soul. As for all the Threatenings of this Book, say, Lord, my Flesh Trembles for Fear of Thee, and I am Afraid of thy Judgments. And▪ as for all the Examples in this Book, say, Lord, By these is thy Servant Warned. Let thy heart be set upon this Book, and This will be a Token, that as for that other Book of God, thy Name is in it.