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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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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, ⟨p. 133⟩as well as Locking for that Great DAY? Do you Long for the Accomplishment of those Glorious Things which are Spoken about the City of God? You pray, Thy Kingdom Come; Well, Suppose the Lord Jesus Christ were immediately [And, can any man prove that it shall not be immediately?] to break in upon the World, and it upon the Throne of His Glory; Would your Hearts even Leap and Spring within you, at the Apprehensions of it? Surely, The Book of Life, then to be opened, will then show you those things that shall Give you, Times of Refreshing in the Presence of the Lord. I'll add but one short word more.
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 Revo•ution, 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,