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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.
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.
Once more, Are you among the Friends of God? It is an usual thing for a Gentleman, that is a Traveller, to have an Album, or Bla•k Book, wherein the Names of his Friends are Inserted, with certain Memorials of them. Why, if you are the Friends of God, you shall have a Name, in His Book; so had Abraham, The Friend of God! Keep you up an Acquaintance with God? Are you never so well, as when Enlightened by the Countenance of God? Are you ready to Do any thing for God, that He would have to be done? O Then, He has got all your Names in a Book of His! Yea, His voice unto you is that, Behold, I have Engraven thee on the Palms of my Hands, thy Wal•s are continually before me; Even as Jerusalem was Engraven on the Rings commonly worn by persons of Quality among the Jews. There was a Time when God, and Holiness, had many Enemies; but there were a few that stood up for God, and Virtue, at such a Time; Now 'tis said, in Mal. 3.16. A Book of Remembrance, was written before Him, for Them, that Feared the Lord, and that Thought upon His Name. What? Are you Loth to have God offended, and are you zealous for that si•e, ⟨p. 131⟩which God would have maintained? Your Names are then in the Book of His Remembrance.
Once more, Are you among the Friends of God? It is an usual thing for a Gentleman, that is a Traveller, to have an Album, or Bla•k Book, wherein the Names of his Friends are Inserted, with certain Memorials of them. Why, if you are the Friends of God, you shall have a Name, in His Book; so had Abraham, The Friend of God! Keep you up an Acquaintance with God? Are you never so well, as when Enlightened by the Countenance of God? Are you ready to Do any thing for God, that He would have to be done? O Then, He has got all your Names in a Book of His! Yea, His voice unto you is that, Behold, I have Engraven thee on the Palms of my Hands, thy Wal•s are continually before me; Even as Jerusalem was Engraven on the Rings commonly worn by persons of Quality among the Jews. There was a Time when God, and Holiness, had many Enemies; but there were a few that stood up for God, and Vertue, at such a Time; Now 'tis said, in