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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.
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 ⟨p. 37⟩for ever and ever. THEN comes, the Time of the Dead, that they should be Judged; THEN will our Lord assume His Davidical Kingdom, and Reign before His Ancient People Gloriously: THEN will be that Appearing and Kingdom of our Lord, wherein He Will Judg the Quick and Dead. Our Lord, speaking of that Kingdom, calls it, in Mat. 19 28. the REGENERATION, When the Son of Man, shall Sit on the Throne of His Glory. Well, and Without Regeneration a man shall then have no comfortable share in the Glory of that Kingdom. Both the New-Heaven, when our Lord with His Raised ones, will occupy the Room now possessed by the Prince of the Power of the Air, and the New-Earth where will be the Nations of the saved from the conflagration; in both of these, there will, Dwell Righteousness; and surely then there must be Regeneration in them. None but the Regenerate may Sing that Song, in Rev. 5.10. We shall Reign over the Earth. None but Saints of the Most High, shall then have the Kingdom given unto them. None but Overcomers are then to have Power over the Nations. There will be no Lots in the Heavenly Canaan for any but the Daniels of the Lord. They are only the Holy ones, who now Rise from a Death of sin, that shall have a part in that First Resurrection; tis only the Upright, who shall then have the Dominion. Unless men be Regenerate, the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 83⟩Christ will not at the great Day acknowledge them with a, Come ye blessed, Inherit the Kingdom: nor shall they then meet with any thing but, Shame and contempt. The New Jerusalem will not be Defiled with any Unregenerate; but they shall be hissed out of that Holy City, with a, Depart ye cursed into everlasting Fire, with the Devil and his Angels: and all their Wickedness will therewithal be showed before the whole Congregation.