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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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IV. Whatever man becomes a Believer on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Essential Word of God, may take it for granted, that his Name is in the Eternal Book of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, is that Blessed Saviour, who says, in Psal. 40.7. In the Volume of the Book, it is Written of me; or, as it may be read, In the Beginning of the Book. Why, as the Lord Jesus Christ stands first, in the Book of Election; Even in the Beginning of the Book; He is the first of the Chosen, and then we are Chosen in Him; so, if you Look into the very Beginning of this visible Book, you will find, The Promised Se•d of the Woman, is Written of; and indeed, the whole Book from first to last, is written to testify this Thing, That our Jesus is ⟨p. 123⟩Exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give us, both Repentance and Remission of Sins. Come then, Let every Soul of us, Receive the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Only Begotten and Ever-Beloved, Son of God, and as the God-man, In whom it has pleased the Father, there should all Fullness dwell. By Faith Receive Him, of whom 'tis Written in the Book, and we may be sure, that we our selves are also Written in the Book. •e we bitterly affected, with a sight of our own Sinfulness, and Wretchedness, and when we are even stung to Death, by the Fiery Serpents of Hell, then let us effectually Hear that Call of our Lord Jesus Christ, Look unto Me, and be ye Saved, all the Ends of the Earth. Utterly Despairing of Help for an Undone Soul, from any other Quarter, Let us fly to the Lord Jesus Christ, as to the Hopeful Refuge, which Almighty God hath set before us: Of this Jesus, Let us declare, This is He, in whose Righteousness only, I dare to appear before the Judgment Seat of God! Let us declare, This is He, who shall Restore my Soul, and Lead me in the Paths of Righteousness! And, This is He, who shall make me a Conqueror, and more than a Conqueror, over my Ghostly Adversaries! Man, if this be, the Resolved Language of thy Soul, concerning the Lord of Life, I can here open the Book of Life, before thine eyes; ⟨p. 124⟩Behold, with a Joyful Soul, Thy Name is written in this Book. It was a dreadful Imprecation upon the Despisers of the Lord Jesus Christ, in