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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.
Unto this we will annex but one Conclusion more: and O that you might Feel, what you are now to Hear.
IV. The Gracious Principle, which Restores the Image of God, in a Regenerate man, inclines him to comply with the CALLS of God, in the GOSPEL. Unto all the Evangelical Proposals, the Return of the Regenerate man is not that, As for the Word spoken in the Name of the Lord, I will not hearken thereunto; no, but it is that, Lo, I come, I delight to do thy Will, O my God. There are especially two things wherein the Calls of the Gospel are summed up unto us; namely, those two, in Acts 20.21. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ: but the Regenerate have the Repentance, and the Faith, so called for. Such is the REPENTANCE ⟨p. 20⟩of a Regenerate man; that he looks on his manifold sinfulness both by Nature and Practice, with a thorough Conviction of it; and he cries out, Lord, I am vile: He then mourns for that exceeding sinfulness, and Loathes himself with the Contrition, of a Rent, a Pierced, a Broken Heart, within him. He therewithal comes to an Ingenuous Confession thereof; and Sin becomes as a Cup of Trembling, or Poison in his Bowels, which he does Cast up, with penitent Acknowledgements, before such as have seen •im take in the Deadly Poison. Hereupon, with a just Recession from it, he cries out, I have do•• Iniquity, but I will do so no more! he sets himself to Mortify every Lust, and gives an Everlasting Divorce […] all his former Courses of Ungodliness. Instead thereof, he Devotes himself to God for ever: to the Flesh, he says, I will no more Humour thee! to the World, he says, I will no more follow thee! to the Devil, he says, I will no longer gratify thee, as formerly! but unto the most High God, he says, Lord, I will be for thee, and not for another. Such is the FAITH of a Regenerate man, that when the Lord Jesus Christ Invites him, Look unto me, and be Saved! and, Come unto me and I will give you Rest; with a Conquered Soul he answers, Lord, I Look, Lord, I come,