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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The Honour and the Image of Gods Children must ever go together. 'Tis only the New-Born that have, The power to be called, the Sons of God: nor may any one else hope for, The Inheritance of the Saints in Light. As none but, They that are Led by the Spirit are the Sons of God, so, are none but they that are Born of that Spirit. Until persons come out from among the Unregenerate, the Almighty God says not unto them, I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters. No, 'tis another Family, that the Unregenerate belongs unto; what is the Name of him? only The seed of the Serpent; and, A Generation of Vipers, and, Ye are of your Father the Devil! That, there is all […] Style that belongs to Wretched Unregenerates.

The Honour and the Image of Gods Children must ever go together. 'Tis only the New-Born that have, The power to be called, the Sons of God: nor may any one else hope for, The Inheritance of the Saints in Light. As none but, They that are Led by the Spirit are the Sons of God, so, are none but they that are Born of that Spirit. Until persons come out from among the Unregenerate, the Almighty God says not unto them, I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters. No, 'tis another Family, that the Unregenerate belongs unto; what is the Name of him? only The seed of the Serpent; and, A Generation of Vipers, and, Ye are of your Father the Devil! That, there is all 〈…〉 Style that belongs to Wretched Unregenerates.

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Once more, Thirdly, those Holy Things, the Sealing Ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ, belong not unto an unregenerate man. There is a Seal but unto a blank, if we administer ⟨p. 34⟩those Seals unto such as have no Regeneration in them. A man must be visibly Regenerate before he may lawfully claim the Baptism of the Lord, for himself and his house. There is as well Purgation of Soul, as Remission of Sin, Sealed in that Ordinance: which who has but the Regenerate! It was of Old required, Repent and be Baptised: It was again required, If thou believest with all thine heart, then mayest be Baptised; Now who do's that, but the Regenerate of the Lord? Until a man be hopefully washed in, The Laver of Regeneration, he will but pollute, The Laver of Baptism, if he be brought unto it. A John, would not Baptise, such as did not Confess their sins, and give cause to think that they did Forsake, what they did Confess. Unto Baptism, there is requisite, as we read, in

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