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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:161p. 124¶4

Tremble at this, all you that have been so busy about the Trifles of this World, as hitherto to continue Christless all your Days. But as for you, To whom Christ is Precious; you may be comforted in this, that you have your Names Written among the Royal Priesthood, the Holy Nation, the Peculiar People, of the Lord.

:162p. 124–126¶5

V. He that belongs to the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, may be certain that His Name is written in the Mysterious Book of that Lord. The Spirit of our Lord, in David, having an eye to his Mystical Body, saith in Psal. 139.16. In thy Book, all my members were written. When once a man becomes really Joined unto that Body even, the whole Body of Saints, he may then Venture to think, I am certainly one of those that were in the Book of God, from all Eternity, Laid out for the Members of Christ Mystical. Yea, But how shall a man know that he belongs to the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ? I'll tell you, How? Are you Acted by the same Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, that ⟨p. 125⟩Actuates all the Rest of His Body? Is the the Lord Jesus Christ a Quickening Spirit unto you, as He is unto the Rest of them, that are United unto Himself? We read of Names Written in the Earth; so 'tis, When we have Hearts cleaving to the Earth. Some there are, that never think, they have Earth enough, and that subordinate all things to the getting of Earth. Such men are strangers to the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ; God knows, whether they have Names Written in Heaven, or no. But pray, mark what I say; the Spirit of the Lord Jesus, Inclines all that belong unto Him, To prefer a Christ above a World; and to abhor and avoid every Sin, as the worst Evil in the World; It inclines them all, to prize Communion with God, in the Devotions of Christianity, above all the Delights of this Life: It inclines them all, to do all the Good they can, unto all that are about them. Say now, Are you Led by this Holy Spirit of the Lord, or no? If you are, Then I say, That you are in the Holy Body of the Lord. Let me add, How are you concerned for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ? Are the Joys of the Church, made your own; Are the Griefs of the Church made your own: Do you Resent the Circumstances of the Church, As being your selves also in the Body? Behold, another

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