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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.
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First, The External Methods of the Holy Spirit for our Conversion will cease upon our long Resisting of Him. To Resist Him, will soon bring us to this, That His Word will no more sound in our ears, and we shall know no more the joyful sound. […] was a most Awful threatening in Amos: 8.11. I will send a Famine of hearing the Word of the Lord. Persons, that sat once under a Powerful Ministry, sometimes for this, come to be where the Cloud• will rain no more upon them; where there is no House of God, no Fear of God, no Bread of •ife. Whole Churches & Nations of men that once enjoyed the word of Life, a•e for this now perishing without any Vision. And it will soon bring us to ⟨p. 153⟩this also, that his Providence will no more be concerned for us. Many a man, once had the Light of God shining upon his Tabernacle, but now every thing brings a Cross with it, and he may say, All things are against me. 'Tis because the Spirit of God speaking to him in his Prosperity hath been resisted; even for that cause now it is with him as in Ez: 7.26. Mischief shall come upon Mischief. On the other side, many a man had his way so hedged up with thorns, that he could not sin so easily, as else he would have done; but how God has done afflicting and restraining of him. Why? He Resisted the Spirit of God speaking to him in his Adversity; and now the Lord says as in Hos. 7.14: He is joined to Idols, Let him alone: One of the Ancients upon that Scripture says, Vis Indignantis Dei terribilem vocem audire? Tis the terriblest Thunder of a Provoked and Revenging God!
First, The External Methods of the Holy Spirit for our Conversion will cease upon our long Resisting of Him. To Resist Him, will soon bring us to this, That His Word will no more sound in our ears, and we shall know no more the joyful sound. 〈…〉 was a most Awful threatning in Amos: 8.11. I will send a Famine of hearing the Word of the Lord. Persons, that sat once under a Powerful Ministry, someimes for this, come to be where the Cloud will rain no more upon them; where there is no Huse of God, no Fear of God, no Bread of ife. Whole Churches & Naions of men that once enjoyed the word of Life, ae for this now perishing without any Vision. And it will soon bring us to