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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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VIII. He that is a true Follower of the Lamb, cannot but have his Name in the Lambs Book of Life. We read in Rev. 13:8. Of some, Whose Names are not written in the Book of Life, of the Lamb. It is needless to Distinguish this Book of the Lamb, from the Book of Life; with some, who Interpret it, as if the Lamb, were the Book it self. However, This may be said; The Lamb of God, is in some sort a Book of God, unto us; that is, we are to Learn from the pattern of the Lord Jesus Christ, how to form our Lives before God: The Life of that Lamb is a sort of a Copy Book for us, from whence we are to take the Rules of our Lives. Come then; what can you say to This? Can it be said of you, There is in yo• the Mind that was in Jesus Christ? Can it be said of you, You Walk even as Jesus Christ walked? Can it be said of you, As was Christ, so you are in the World? Are you often thinking, How did Christ perform such a Duty? and, How did Christ endure such a Trial? and are you studious of a Conformity to that Lord from Heaven? Why, That Lamb of God, has then written you among his Followers. Particularly, Are you the Sheep of God? ⟨p. 132⟩Are you Clea•ly, like Sheep? Are you Harmless, like Sheep? Are you Patient, like Sheep? Like Sheep, are you Tractable? And like Sheep, do you Study, to be very profitable? The Shepherd of Israel says in Joh. 10.3. He calls his own Sheep by Name; Sirs, you are the Sheep, so called, and your Names are in the Book of the Lamb.
IX. Such as duly long for the Day, when the Books are to be Opened, will probably have their Names then found, in that Book, where 'tis most of all to be desired. It is foretold unto us, in Rev. 20.12. I saw the Dead, Small and Great, stand before God, and the Books were Opened; and the Dead were Judged out of those Things, which were written in the Books. Now can you heartily say, O That this Day might come on apace! Are you Longing for that Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is to be at His Appearing to Judge the Quick and the Dead? Are you Longing for the Revolution, wherein The Kingdoms of this World, shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and the Time of the Dead, shall come, that they should be Judged? There is a Day at Hand, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall Judge the World, and make New Heavens and a New Earth, wherein shall dwell Righteousness: Are you now Longing,