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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 THIRDLY.
If once the Resisted Spirit of God have done with you, you are then horribly undone for ever! There will then be no Conversion to be expected for you, nor will any Salvation be then attainable; Then you perish without any Remedy or Escaping! Then you ⟨p. 162⟩have nothing but a Fearful Expectation of a Fiery Indignation to devour you. O Remember, the Day of Grace will then be over with you, as it was with Esau, who in Gen. 27.34. Unsuccessfully Cr•'d with great and exceeding Bitter Cry, Bless me, O my Father! Then, tho' like the Foolish Virgins you Cry, Lord, Lord, open to me Tho' you Cry, Lord, Lord, Vouchsafe me one tender of Jesus more! Or, Lord, Lord, afford me one Season of Mercy more! It will be all in vain. I must now seasonably tell you, it will be as the Outcry of some has been, All to Late! All to Late! Forsaken Souls, your Plight will then be that of Israel, in Deut. 1.45. Who Returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not hearken to their voice. Tho' you should then beg with tears of Blood, Lord, extend thy pity to a wretched Soul ▪ it will signify nothing at all. I do assure you, this Resisted Spirit of God, will at last apply Himself unto the Spirits of Impenitents, no otherwise than as an Ireful and a Dreadful Tormentor, world without end. That Almighty Spirit will Torture the Spirits of the Damned, with Immediate Impressions of an Almighty Fury, & render them as glowing Irons fully possessed by th• Indignation of God. All thy cries for His F••y will then have but this Answer No, No; Remember, what was in thy Life time: I then strove with thee, and then wouldest not hea;