N00526:190
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.
First, There are External Endeavours used by the Spirit of God for the Conversion of men. As now; in the Ordinances of God, there are Endeavours of the Holy Spirit for our Spiritual Good. The Spirit breaths and mov•s in the Appointments of the Gospel. As it was said in Neh. 9.3. Thou testifiedst against ⟨p. 144⟩them by thy Spirit in thy Prophets; The Spirit of God sends Prophets, Ministers, Messengers, with which he takes pains about the Conversion of ungodly men. The Prophet Isaiah could say, in Isa: 48.16. The Lord God, and His Spirit hath sent me ▪ Why, when the Ambassadors of God, are beseeching of men to be Reconciled unto him, the Spirit of the Lord God himself, accompanies them, in their Embassages and in those Beseechings. Again by the Providences of God there are Endeavours of the Holy Spirit for our Eternal Good. The Mercies of God, those are the things with which the Holy Spirit is drawing us to Christ; it is in them, that the Spirit of God may say, as in Jer. 31.3. With Loving Kindness have I drawn thee. The Language of the Spirit in every mercy is, O Fear the Lord and His Goodness! and, O let the Goodness of God Lead thee to Repentance! The Judgments of God, these are the Things, with which the Holy Spirit is driving us from Sin; for Them we may acknowledge to the Spirit of God, as in Job 10.2. Thou contendest with me. As the Rod has a voice, thus there is in every Judgment that voice of the Spirit, O Learn Righteousness! and, O see what an Evil and a Bitter Thing it is to Forsake thy God! In the Hand of the Spirit, Mercies do oblige, Judgments do demand our Conversion to the Lord.
First, There are External Endeavours used by the Spirit of God for the Conversion of men. As now; in the Ordinances of God, there are Endeavours of the Holy Spirit for our Spiritual Good. The Spirit breaths and mov•s in the Appointments of the Gospel. As it was said in Neh. 9.3. Thou testifiedst against