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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.
First, Gospel Mysteries, cannot be Discerned by an Ungenerate Man. He is, Born Blind, and so he continues, till the New-birth has once Enlightened him. There are Thick scales upon the Eyes, which Regeneration has not opened. The Methods and Rewards used by God, in Governing of the Unseen World, are most of all Unseen by the Unregenerate: It is said, in 1 Cor. 2.14. The Natural man cannot know them, because they are Spiritually Discerned. Without Regeneration a man cannot come to understand, How man is to be Saved, or, How God is to be Served, or, How things depend upon one another, in the Great Mystery of Godliness. 'Tis with him, as in Luc. 14.34. The Eye is Evil, and the Body is full of Darkness! and his Conceptions about the Things of God, are like those which a Beggar in his Hovel, or an Indian his Wigwam, has about the Magnificence of a mighty Kingdom. Lamentable man! Sampson with his Eyes extinguished, grinding for the Philistines, was ⟨p. 29⟩not in a Condition so deplorable• […]
First, Gospel Mysteries, cannot be Discerned by an Ungenerate Man. He is, Born Blind, and so he continues, till the New-birth has once Enlightened him. There are Thick scales upon the Eyes, which Regeneration has not opened. The Methods and Rewards used by God, in Governing of the Unseen World, are most of all Unseen by the Unregenerate: It is said, in 1 Cor. 2.14. The Natural man cannot know them, because they are Spiritually Discerned. Without Regeneration a man cannot come to understand, How man is to be Saved, or, How God is to be Served, or, How things depend upon one another, in the Great Mystery of Godliness. 'Tis with him, as in Luc. 14.34. The Eye is Evil, and the Body is full of Darkness! and his Conceptions about the Things of God, are like those which a Beggar in his Hovel, or an Indian his Wigwam, has about the Magnificence of a mighty Kingdom. Lamentable man! Sampson with his Eyes extinguished, grinding for the Philistines, was ⟨p. 29⟩