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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II. Nor can a man enjoy a GLORIOUS ESTATE in an other world, without Regeneration ▪ We are told in 1. Pet. 1 24. God hath begotten us again, to a Lively hope; to an Inheritance Reserved in Heaven for us. Why, without being Begotten again, we can have no Hope o• ever coming to that Inheritance. The very Pillars of Heaven, and the foundations of the Earth, are not more Immovable, than this purpose of our God, Without Holiness no man shall see the Lord; now tis by Regeneration that we are partakers of that Holiness. There is a Kingdom which God has promised; but only they that Love Him, are the Heirs of that Kingdom; now of an unregenerate man it may be said, How dwells the Love of God in such a man! Wherefore

II. Nor can a man enjoy a GLORIOUS ESTATE in an other world, without Regeneration ▪ We are told in 1. Pet. 1 24. God hath begotten us again, to a Lively hope; to an Inheritance Reserved in Heaven for us. Why, without being Begotten again, we can have no Hope o• ever coming to that Inheritance. The very Pillars of Heaven, and the foundations of the Earth, are not more Immoveble, than this purpose of our God, Without Holiness no man shall see the Lord; now tis by Regeneration that we are partakers of that Holiness. There is a Kingdome which God has promised; but only they that Love Him, are the Heirs of that Kingdome; now of an unregenerate man it may be said, How dwells the Love of God in such a man! Wherefore

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First, The unregenerate man, shall be excluded from the Glorious Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Lower World, at the day of judgment. The Day is at the Do•r, [Lord Hasten it!] When the Papal and the Turkish Power being extinguished, and the Devil also having no further power to Deceive the Nations, is will be Proclaimed, The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of is Christ, and He shall Reign

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