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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.
There is, Next, A Confirmation; and this is with a strong Asseveration. Verily, Verily.] The Original here fetches an Adverb, of Assuring, and of Promising, from the Hebrew Language: it is, as if it had been said, The Saying is Faithful & Certain, and shall be brought surely to pass! And the Verity of this position, like Pharaohs Dream of old, is Repeated; because the Thing indeed is No Dream; no, The Thing is Established by God. Hereunto our Lord adds, I say unto thee] Who is that I? To make a a just Paraphrase thereupon; 'Tis that I, who ever speaks in Righteousness; that I, Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life: that I, who is the Judge of Quick and of Dead; and if such an One as He, say it, who dares to doubt it!
Wherefore the All-concerning DOCTRINE, which now calls for our Earnest Heed, is this: That without Regeneration men cannot Enjoy the Kingdom of God
One of the Ancients wisely engraved that ⟨p. 6⟩Motto upon his Table, No Back-biter is to be Entertained here. But behold the Motto, which the Eternal God has Inscribed upon His Kingdom, No •an shall enjoy this, but he that is Born Again! And now, may my God help me to […] His Truth, with such Right Words, as thro• the Co•operations of His Grace, may be Forcible, upon all your souls; May the Lord God of my Master send me good speed this Day!
One of the Ancients wisely engraved that ⟨p. 6⟩Motto upon his Table, No Back-biter is to be Entertained here. But behold the Motto, which the Eternal God has Inscribed upon His Kingdom, No an shall enjoy this, but he that is Born Again! And now, may my God help me to His Truth, with such Right Words, as thro the Cooperations of His Grace, may be Forceable, upon all your souls; May the Lord God of my Master send me good speed this Day!