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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.
AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE. › Proposition 1: The First PROPOSITION.
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.
The First PROPOSITION.
There is a REGENERATION, or New Birth, which the Elect of God, before their Death, must have Experience of. This is one of the Links, in that which has of old been called, The Golden Chain of Salvation; Rom. 8.30. Whom He did Predestinate, them He also Called; that is, he makes them Effectually to hear- that voice of his, whereby they are Born Again. Predestination and Regeneration are the things which God hath Joined: it will be to the mans own Everlasting Ruin if any man go to Put them asunder. We may be sure that, As many as are Ordained to Eternal Life, will by a Spiritual Birth be made capable for the Fruition of it. But what means that? How can a man be Born when He is Old?
There is a REGENERATION, or New Birth, which the Elect of God, before their Death, must have Experience of. This is one of the Links, in that which has of old been called, The Golden Chain of Salvation; Rom. 8.30. Whom He did Predestinate, them He also Called; that is, he makes them Effectually to hear- that voice of his, whereby they are Born A•gain. Predestination and Regeneration are the things which God hath Joyned: it will be to the mans own Everlasting Ruine if any man go to Put them asunder. We may be sure that, As many as are Ordained to Eternal Life, will by a Spiritual Birth be made capable for the Fruition of it. But what means that? How can a man be Born when He is Old?
I Confess that as in Glorification, so in Regeneration, ⟨p. 7⟩there are, Unutterable Things: 'tis Consisting of, and Surrounded with Invisibles. That Unaccountable Thing which is in Regeneration bestowed upon us, is called, in