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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 2: The Second 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.
A state wherein God Himself is the King of His people, and wherein the People of God, will as […], have a Dominion over all their Interior adversaries. The Lord said unto hi• Israel, in Exod. 19.6. Ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of Priests and an holy Nation. And alluding thereunto, it is said of all the Faithful in 1. Pet 2 9 Ye are a Royal Priesthood, an Holy Nation, a Peculiar People. Now there are singular privileges belonging to this Peculiar People ▪ all of which no man without Regeneration can be admitted unto. In our Birth from si••ul Parents, we are Born Slaves; Yea, the servants of servants. We are children indeed; but of what? Children of Wrath, and the Heirs of death. But by another Birth, from the Spirit of God making New Creatures of us, we are Born Kings; there are many Crowns that belong unto us. Particularly.
A state wherein God Himself is the King of His people, and wherein the People of God, will as 〈…〉, have a Dominion over all their Interiour adversaries. The Lord said unto hi• Israel, in Exod. 19.6. Ye shall be unto me a Ki•gdome of Priests and an holy Nation. And alluding thereunto, it is said of all the Faithful in 1. Pet 2 9 Ye are a Royal Priesthood, an Holy Nation, a Peculiar People. Now there are singular priviledges belonging to this Peculiar People ▪ all of which no man without Regeneration can be admitted unto. In our Birth from si••ul Parents, we are Born Slaves; Yea, the servants of servants. We are children indeed; but of what? Children of Wrath, and the Heirs of death. But by another Birth, from the Spirit of God making New Creatures of us, we are Born Kings; there are many Crowns that belong unto us. Particularly.