Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…

Name: Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693

[6], 154 [i.e. 162] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 39k words · Evans 654 · Wing M1164

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AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE. › Proposition 2: The Second PROPOSITION.

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:48p. 30–31

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?

:49p. 31–33

Again, The Unregenerate Man, can have no Title to the Saving benefits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have now Three Woe-Trumpets, to Sound in the Ears of such a man; so that it may be very truly said, a Dreadful Sound is in his Ears! Let the Sinner, first, hear that Account of his wretchedness, in Prov. 9.12. He shall be Holden with the Cords of his Sins. An Unregenerate Man, is an Unjustified man. Since it may be said of him, Thy Heart is not Right in the sight of God, it may be also said of him▪ Thy Iniquities keep thee in a Condition more Bitter than any Gall, bound over to Suffer Eternal Punishments! O Dreadful Condition! If Unregenerate, then Unpardoned. The ⟨p. 32⟩Sins of such a man are Followed by him, and so long they can't be Forgiven to him. All the many Thousands of Sins wherewith he has Rebelled against the God that made him, are still fresh and full upon the score against him, as if they had been but this very morning perpetrated; and the Loud Cry of them, Heaven, Pay us our Wages! Pay us our Wages! Let the Death of the Sinner, which is our Wages, be paid immediately; this Cry is going up to Heaven against him every Day. Thy Iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord! Let the Sinner take a further Account of his Wretchedness, from

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