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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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VI. He that can see his Name written on the Breast of the Lord, may plainly ⟨p. 127⟩see it also in the Book of the Lord. It was the usage of old, in Exod. 28.19. Aaron shall bear the Names of the Children of Israel, upon his Heart, when he goes in unto the Holy Place, for a Memorial before the Lord continu•ll•. Our Lord Jesus Christ, is our High priest, gone for us into the most Holy Place; and He has Engraved upon His Breast, the Names, of all that are to be Saved by His Mediation. Well, Are your Names among them? An Hard Interrogatory! But if you'll Hearken to me a little, you shall see, whether your Names are there or no. I say then, •o you bear upon your Hearts, the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ continually? Is it your Frequent, your Daily Study, What shall I do to advance the Name of my dear Lord? And is it like a Dagger at your Hearts, that the Name of your Lord is Honoured so Little, or so much Blasphemed, in the World? Be sure, your Names are upon His Heart, if his Name Lie much upon yours. But, there is another Symptom, which may help you, in the Discovery: 'tis This. Have you, in your own Wishes and Prayers, the Echo's of that Intercession, wherein our Lord carries the Names of His People, before God, that they may be Saved unto the uttermost? I ask you, that you would make a Leisure to look into the ⟨p. 128⟩seventeenth Chapter of John, where you have a little Copy of our Lords Glorious Intercession. There, when you read the Demands of our Lord, that we may be kept from the Evil of the World, That we may be Sanctified by the Word of Truth, That we may be United unto Himself, and come to be with Him, where He is, to behold His Glory, as our Heaven; Do you fervently and constantly, make Those your own Intercessions for your selves? Can you say, Lord, Here is all my Salvation, and all my Desire! Man, Thy Name, is then Written among those for whom the Lord of Glory is is at this Day Interceding in his Glory.
VI. He that can see his Name written on the Breast of the Lord, may plainly ⟨p. 127⟩