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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.
Consider, FIRST.
The Holy Spirit of God is, at this very day, using his Methods for the converting of your Souls. As the Apostle speaking of what The Holy Ghost saith, he puts that Remark upon it, He says, to Day, after so long a Time, harden not your hearts. This may I say, Behold after so long a time, after all the Resistance, after all the Injustice you have given to the Holy Ghost, He still begs of you, O that you would be Converted unto God! The cries of the Holy Spirit in your ears are those in Ruth 1.16. Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. Have you not Outward Offers of the Gospel made unto you? at this very instant you have them. We read in Rev. 22.15. The Spirit saith come, and whosoever will let him come, and take of the Waters of Life freely. 'Tis the Holy Spirit of God that is now urging of you, To turn and live. You are now called upon, O come and give yourselves to the Son of God! You are now called upon, O come and ⟨p. 158⟩join yourselves to the Church of God! It is the Holy Spirit of God that is bespeaking these needful and useful things at your hands. Have you not also Inward Moving• in your own souls to accept hereof? You cannot well be without them. It is said in Isa. 30.21. Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way walk ye in it. Thus you have a word within you, saying, O depart from the Tents of wicked men, lest you perish in all their sins! You have a word within you, saying, O let not matters between your God, and your Soul, any more lye at uncertainties! 'Tis the Holy Spirit of God that is in this Word within you. These Urgencies are from that Holy Spirit. Let no discouraged person countenance any Despair in themselves about this Affair; Let no disconsolate person say, The Spirit has wholly done with me. Is this a thing that thou art afraid & concerned about? There's a sign, thou art not so unhappy yet: the Holy Spirit of God is yet at work about thy Soul, & as it is said in