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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.
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Secondly, The Unregenerate man shall be Banished from the Glorious Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, in the Upper World, throughout the Days of Eternity. A Saul must have Another Heart, before he were fit for • Kingdom; and so must a Sinner, before he can be fit for this Kingdom. Between Glorification and Regeneration, the Connection is Inseparable. No Unclean man might Enter into the Temple of old; nor shall any Unregenerate One Enter into the Heaven oft the Blessed. As the Serpent himself shall no more come into the Paradise of God, so the Seed of that Serpent shall be Exiled from thence, with what we have in Math. 7.22. Depart, I know you not, ye workers of Iniquity! We may as well suppose that a piece of Rotten Flesh may become a Glittering Star, in the Firmament of God, as that there should be one Unregenerate man, in that Retinue of many Thousands, which our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 39⟩Christ, as a Standard Bearer ▪ in the Head of them, will conduct into the Celestial Regions, when He shall Deliver up the Kingdom unto the Father. Yea, it may be said of the Unregenerate, not only that he SHALL NOT, but also, that he CANNOT have a part in that Kingdom. For, it is, first, impossible, that the Exercises of Heaven should be performed by an Unregenerate man. As for the Love of God, which is to Remain, in Heaven; unless God Circumcise our Hearts ▪ we cannot Love the Lord our God with all our Hearts? As for the Praise of God, which for ever Employs the Hallelujahs of the Glorified; how can the Blessing of God, come out of the bitter mouth, which is full of Deadly Poison? And, secondly, 'tis impossible that the Recompenses of Heaven, should be Relished by such a man. They must be Inlaid into the very Frame of our Souls, if ever we have them; yea, Regeneration, is the Inchoation of them. Were an Unregenerate man, on the Mountain of Transfiguration, he could not say, 'Tis good for to be here! O fearful Case! Th• man that often said of a Sabbath here, What a Weariness is it? would also be, Weary of the Rest which Remains for the People of GOD ▪ What Resentments can a Dead Carcass have of a Robe or Crown put upon it? That Heaven would be rather a Torment, ⟨p. 40⟩