N00526:207
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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Secondly, The Internal Methods of the Holy Spirit for our Conversion will also cease upon our long Resisting of Him. It was said of Saul, wretched Saul, in 1 Sam. 16.14. The Spirit of the Lord, departed from him. It was again s•id to Saul, bloody▪ Saul, in 1 Sam. 28.16. The Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine Enemy. This was after and because that wretched bloody man, had been long Fighting against that ⟨p. 154⟩Blessed Spirit of the Lord. A long Resistance of the Holy Spirit will bring a man to this woeful plight, The Spirit of the Lord will ••••ly forsake that forlorn man; The Spirit of the Lord will take no loving, no saving, no converting Notice of him.
Secondly, The Internal Methods of the Holy Spirit for our Conversion will also cease upon our long Resisting of Him. It was said of Saul, wretched Saul, in 1 Sam. 16.14. The Spirit of the Lord, departed from him. It was again s•id to Saul, bloody▪ Saul, in 1 Sam. 28.16. The Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine Enemie. This was after and because that wretched bloody man, had been long Fighting against that ⟨p. 154⟩Blessed Spirit of the Lord. A long Resistance of the Holy Spirit will bring a man to this woful plight, The Spirit of the Lord will ••••ly forsake that forlorn man; The Spirit of the Lord will take no loving, no saving, no converting Notice of him.