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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.
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 Prov. 15.8. The Sacrifice of the Wicked, is an Abomination to the Lord. The Unregenerate man is an Unaccepted man. The Delight of God is only in Himself, and in what of Himself is in the Creature; but here is One, Without God in the World. It is an Established Thing, Without Faith it is impossible to please God; but the Unregenerate is also an Unbeliever. […] the poor man do never so many Religio•s, […] Charitable and Serviceable Things, they are but so many Splendid Sins, in the Account of God. All the Oblations of such a man, are no better than Swines Blood; and the Blessed God, says, I like them not ▪ because they cannot be duly Qualified. His Good Works, are but so many Cyph•es▪ wanting that Figure that should give a value ⟨p. 33⟩