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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.
Thirdly, Gospel Privileges may not be expected by a man that is Unregenerate. What the Psalmist said about the City, we may say about the Kingdom, of God, Glorious Things are spoken of thee! But until by Regeneration Men are Naturalized, in this Kingdom, they cannot lay claim to those Glorious Things. 'Tis Regeneration that helps us to that Wedding Garment, without which, if we come to the Gospel Table, the Great King will say unto us, How camest thou hither?
Thirdly, Gospel Priviledges may not be expected by a man that is Unregenerate. What the Psalmist said about the City, we may say about the Kingdom, of God, Glorious Things are spoken of thee! But until by Regeneration Men are Naturalized, in this Kingdom, they cannot lay claim to those Glorious Things. 'Tis Regeneration that helps us to that Wedding Garment, without which, if we come to the Gospel Table, the Great King will say unto us, How camest thou hither?
But particularly, The Unregenerate Man can have no Union with the Lord Jesus Christ: No, He is yet in the First Adam. A man cannot be United unto the Heavenly Adam, without the Heavenly Image. 'Tis in Regeneration, that we come to be Grafted ⟨p. 31⟩upon the only Living and Lifegiving Olive Tree. The Apostle counts it a filthy Absurdity, in 1 Cor. 6.15. Shall I take the Members of Christ, and make them the Members of an Harlot? God forbid. Even so, can a Mind be United unto the Lord Jesus Christ, while it is yet. Enmity against God? Can an Heart be United unto the Lord Jesus Christ, while it is yet, A Cage of Unclean Lusts▪ Can the Lord Jesus take a Tongue into an Union with Himself, and Leave the Poison of Asps Lurking and working under it? Shall the Mystical Body of our Lord be like Nebuchadnezzars Image, the Head Gold, and the Members Clay? God forbid?