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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.
Secondly The Holy Spirit attempts the Conversion of men by Affecting of them. And there are three things, which the Spirit of God affects many men into, when He is making Essays towards the Converting of them.
First, There are dismal Terrors which the Spirit of God often causes in unconverted men. He terrifies them with hideous Visions of their own Wretchedness and Misery: and aff•ightens them with a just Apprehension, that if they continue as they are, He that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour. We read in Rom. 8.15. about the Spirit of bondage unto fear. The Spirit of God makes many a man see himself bound over to endure the Fearful and Fiery Wrath of God for ever; He enkindles in them a Fear, that He is angry with them every day, and that He will break them sore in the place of Dragons at the Last Day. Thus the Spirit made Faelix to tremble, in the Fore-bodings of a Judgment to come.
First, There are dismal Terrours which the Spirit of God often causes in unconverted men. He terrifies them with hideous Visions of their own Wretchedness and Misery: and aff•ightens them with a just Apprehension, that if they continue as they are, He that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour. We read in Rom. 8.15. about the Spirit of bondage unto fear. The Spirit of God makes many a man see himself bound over to endure the Fearful and Fiery Wrath of God for ever; He enkindles in them a Fear, that He is angry with them every day, and that He will break them sore in the place of Dragons at the Last Day. Thus the Spirit made Faelix to tremble, in the Fore-bodings of a Judgment to come.