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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.
Again, A Regenerate man has New APPETITES breathing in him. Once indeed he Drank in Iniquity Like water; but there is now another sort of Relish in the Soul of him. ⟨p. 12⟩The WILL of a Regenerate man, comes to make that choice, in Psal. 73.25. Whom have I in Heaven, but thee, O Lord! and there is none upon Earth, that I desire besides thee. Formerly, it he had been asked, What will satisfy th•e? he would have itched upon a Long Life in this World, […] with all the Pleasures and Profits and […] of it. But now he is no more so Selfish, so Idolatrous and Atheistical. The chief •ND, which he now chooses, is, That the Eternal God may by and from him have Eternal Ac•n•wl•dgments. And the MEANS, which he chooses for this End, are, An Acquaintance with, and Obedience to, the Lord Jesus Christ, in all the Methods directed by the Scriptures of Truth. When the God of Heaven propounds unto this man, as he did unto Solomon, Ask, what I shall give thee: 'tis nothing short of Heaven, that will content him: and he cordially takes and likes that Appropriation of God upon him, This man have I formed for my self, he shall show forth my praise. Those little Designs, and sorry Delights, which the most of men do basely take up withal, become very contemptible to the Soul of such a man; and he heartily closes with it as his main business in the world, By Repenting and Believing, to make sure of Everlasting Happiness, and in the continual Exercise of Religion, to bear Testimonies unto the Truths and Ways of our Maker. We may add, That the ⟨p. 13⟩AFFECTIONS of a Regenerate Man are such as Enable him to comply with that Rule, in Rom. 12.9. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. His LOVE once was of those Abominable Things, which the Soul of the Lord Hateth. But now he says, I Love thee, O Lord my Strength! now he says, Oh! how I Love thy Law! now he says, I have Loved the Habitation of thy House, and unto this he joins, The L•w of the Brethren! His HOPE, once was only of Goods laid up for many years; and all that while he was indeed, Without Hope. But now his Hope is, For thy Salvation, O Lord! And his Fear is, Lest I fall short of Entering into Rest. His JOY, was once only in the, Increase of Corn and Wine: but now 'tis, In the Light of Gods Countenance. And his Grief is broached, by that Reflection, My Iniquities have separated between me and my God;