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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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VII. All the Servants, All the Soldiers, All the Friends, of God, have their Names Entered in His Book,; Let every man Examine himself, whether he be such an One, or no? Are you the Servants of God? The King of Egypt, as we Read in Genesis, had a Box, where was Written the Names of the Servants belonging to his Household. Thus the King of Heaven, has a Book, wherein are the Names of all His true Servants written. There are some of whom it may be said, They are always at work for God; and they are ever now and then contriving, What shall I do for God? Let me confidently tell Them ⟨p. 129⟩that are thus employed. The great God has every one of your Names before him. There is not any one service, that we do for our God, but it is in his Book: more exactly then ever Mordecai's Fidelity was in the Persian Chronicles; and surely then, every servant of His, must have a Name also there. We do not let fall one Tear, in our waiting upon God; but, Lord it is in thy Book! and is there not also the Name of him, who dropped the Tear? Again, Are you the Soldiers of God? Commanders use to have the Names of all their Soldiers, in their Catalogues, and some very memorable Generals have had such memories, as to know by Name the most of them. Truly so, the Lord of Hosts, He has a Book, wherein he has Listed the Names of all the Soldiers, that Fight under His Banners against the enemies of His Interests. There are some, that are always bearing of their Testimonies for the Labouring Truths, and the Neglected Ways of God, in the world; and that are always mortifying in their own Souls, those, Fleshly Lusts, that war against their Souls. To these also, it may be freely said, Your Names are among the Champions of the Great God. We read concerning, The Book of the wars of the Lord; and indeed many Worthies had their Names in that Book. As for you, that faith fully set your selves, in your places to bear down whatever is contrary to God and ⟨p. 130⟩Christ, & Grace and Piety and Charity in the world, I say, Your Names are among those worthies of the Lord.
VII. All the Servants, All the Souldiers, All the Friends, of God, have their Names Entred in His Book,; Let every man Examine himself, whether he be such an One, or no? Are you the Servants of God? The King of Egypt, as we Read in Genesis, had a Box, where was Written the Names of the Servants belonging to his Houshold. Thus the King of Heaven, has a Book, wherein are the Names of all His true Servants written. There are some of whom it may be said, They are always at work for God; and they are ever now and then contriving, What shall I do for God? Let me confidently tell Them