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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
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CAUTION.
Leave off then, Ye Unconverted sinners, leave off Resisting the Holy Spirit of God! O how many Unreasonable (for I may call them Unreasonable) Souls are there before the Lord this day, of whom it may be said, This hath been their manner from their Youth up? 'Tis indeed, the case, the crime of all you, that never yet were Converted unto God. I believe there is hardly a Child of Twelve Years Old among us, which the Spirit of God has not been in some sort working upon; but in the Name of God, what is come of it? Are you not still in the Gall of Bitterness, and in the Bond of Iniquity? Are you not still Prayerless, Graceless, Christless? Is not the day yet to dawn, the hour yet to come, of your closing with the Lord Jesus upon Gospel terms? Alas, you have, then, all this while been Resisting the Holy Spirit of God. •ut have done, you unwary Souls, have done, •ay down your Arms; let not the Best Friend you have in the world be any more treated •o. The Lord could say as in Jerem: 2.5. What Iniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me. Thus does the Holy Spirit of God plead with you, What Injury have I done thee, ⟨p. 157⟩poor Soul? What harm do I persuade thee to, that thou wilt not allow me to perfect a work of Conversion in thee?
Leave off then, Ye Unconverted sinners, leave off Resisting the Holy Spirit of God! O how many Unreasonable (for I may call them Unreasonable) Souls are there before the Lord this day, of whom it may be said, This hath been their manner from their Youth up? 'Tis indeed, the case, the crime of all you, that never yet were Converted unto God. I believe there is hardly a Child of Twelve Years Old among us, which the Spirit of God has not been in some sort working upon; but in the Name of God, what is come of it? Are you not still in the Gall of Bitterness, and in the Bond of Iniquity? Are you not still Prayerless, Graceless, Christless? Is not the day yet to dawn, the hour yet to come, of your closing with the Lord Jesus upon Gospel terms? Alas, you have, then, all this while been Resisting the Holy Spirit of God. ut have done, you unwary Souls, have done, ay down your Arms; let not the Best Friend you have in the world be any more treated o. The Lord could say as in Jerem: 2.5. What Iniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me. Thus does the Holy Spirit of God plead with you, What Injury have I done thee,