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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.
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 1 Pet. 3.4. The Hidden Man of the Heart. What the Wise man says, about Generation, may be said about Regeneration too, We know not the way of the Spirit in us! Concerning both, it was the Language of the Psalmist, and it may be ours, We are fearfully and wonderfully made! Rude Pagans, 'tis true, have had their dark Notion, about, a, Renascentia, or a New-Birth, in their Philosophy: but how short were their Conceptions as to the Regeneration, and the New-Birth in Christianity? That may be said of the New-Birth, which has been said of the New Name, in Rev. 2.17. No man knows it, except he that Receiveth it. And yet it is hard, even for such a man to Say, what he does Know about, such a marvellous work of God. However, Let this be offered as a small Description of it. REGENERATION, is a Real and Thorough Change, wrought by the Holy Spirit, in a Fallen Man, through the Infusion of a Gracious Principle into him, which Restores in him, the Lost Image of God, and therewithal Inclines him to comply with the Calls of the Gospel.
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 bestow'd upon us, is called, in 1 Pet. 3.4. The Hidden Man of the Heart. What the Wise man says, about Generation, may be said about Regeneration too, We know not the way of the Spirit in us! Concerning both, it was the Language of the Psalmist, and it may be ours, We are fearfully and wonderfully made! Rude Pagans, 'tis true, have had their dark Notion, about, a, Renascentia, or a New-Birth, in their Philosophy: but how short were their Conceptions as to the Regeneration, and the New-Birth in Christianity? That may be said of the New-Birth, which has been said of the New Name, in