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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. There is a Real & a Thorough CHANGE ⟨p. 8⟩wrought in every Regenerate Man. Indeed the Substance of one Soul is not Removed or Dissolved in Regeneration, and the Substance of an other Introduced, as the Jews fondly fancied. The Being of our Soul is not scattered, but the Crookedness and Wickedness thereof is Rectified, in Regeneration; the Metal of the Soul re•••ns Old for the Sort of it, but becomes New for the Stamp of it; nor is a New Faculty added unto the Soul, but a New Quality unto the Faculty. Thus in Ezek. 36.26. a New Heart, and a New Spirit, is ascribed unto the New-born Man; but how? As we Read of New Tongues, and New Moons, which mean only a New Speech, and a Ne• Light adorning of the old: But yet, a Mighty Cha•ge is undergone by the Regenerate Man; he is born again, that is, he is one come into another world, and has another way of Living in that world, than before; he is, as we find him called, in Eph. 4.23. A Renewed Man.
I. There is a Real & a Thorough CHANGE ⟨p. 8⟩wrought in every Regenerate Man. Indeed the Substance of one Soul is not Removed or Dissolved in Regeneration, and the Substance of an other Introduced, as the Jews fondly fancy'd. The Being of our Soul is not scattered, but the Crookedness and Wickedness thereof is Rectify'd, in Regeneration; the Metal of the Soul re•••ns Old for the Sort of it, but becomes New for the Stamp of it; nor is a New Faculty added unto the Soul, but a New Quality unto the Faculty. Thus in Ezek. 36.26. a New Heart, and a New Spirit, is ascribed unto the New-born Man; but how? As we Read of New Tongues, and New M•ons, which mean only a New Speech, and a Ne• Light ado•ning of the old: But yet, a Mighty Chage is undergone by the Regenerate Man; he is born again, that is, he is one come into another world, and has another way of Living in that world, than before; he is, as we find him called, in