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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.
and that, My Trespasses have pierced my Saviour; and that, By my Sins I have wronged my own Soul. And what are his Desires now, but an, Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness?
Furthermore, a Regenerate man has New EMPLOYMENTS followed by him. It might indeed be said unto him. You were the Servant of Sin: but he is now vigorously Engaged in the Service of another Lord: his Character is that in Psal. 119.38. Lord, Thy Servant, Devoted unto thy Fear. ⟨p. 14⟩As to the SPIRIT of the Regenerate man, that is otherwise Employed than once it was. The Thoughts that formerly swarmed in him, were earthly, Sensual, Devilish; but now he can say, How precious are thy Thoughts unto me, O Lord! His Meditations upon God, and the Words and Works, of that Great God, are sweet unto him. And his Contrivances are, What shall I do to b• Saved? and, How may I bring forth much of that Fruit, whereby my Heavenly Father may be Glorified? The BODY of a Regenerate man, that also is Employed more Nobly, more Holily, more Divinely, than heretofore, when its Members were, The […] of Unrighteousness. May we a little Anatomize this New Living Man! His EYES, were once wandering after, The •us• of the Eye: but now he has made a, Covenant with his Eyes; now he has his Eyes unto the Lord; now, Rivers of Waters run down his Eyes, because the Law of God is violated. His EARS, were once open unto, Rotten Communication; but now those Ears have the Sayings of Jesus Christ s•aking down into them; now his Ears will Hear what God the Lord will speak; now he has his Ears bored unto the Service of God. His TONGUE once was a thing Set on Fire of Hell; but now it becomes like choice Silver for the Truth and Worth of the Words proceeding from it; now it ⟨p. 15⟩will utter Psalms instead of Ballads, and Prayers instead of Swearing and Cursing and Frothy Foolish Ribaldry: Yea, 'tis as the Pen of a Ready Writer, when speaking about the King and Kingdom of the Saints. What are his HANDS? not The Fists of Wickedness; but Lifted up in the Name of God. What are his FEET? not, Swift to do Evil; but Turned unto the Testimonies of the Lord. In fine, the whole Body of this man, becomes a Temple to the Holy Spirit of God. And thus is the Regenerate man, all over New! But, O make a pause here, and let thy Heart smie thee, if thou art a stranger to such a Renovation. We'll then pass to, a Second Conclusion