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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.
Particularly;
First, Can you not avoid the Society of those, by whom your own Regeneration may be discouraged! O then avoid it. What should hinder you that you should not be able to say, as in Psal. 26.3. I have not sat with vain person• ! There are ungodly ones that would prejudice your hearts against the power of Godliness, and that would entangle you in the snares of sin and hell: concerning those let me vehemently cry unto you in words like those of Moses, Depart I pray you, from these wicked ones, Lest you perish with them. O that you may be deterred from the Fascinations of evil company, by that admonition of wisdom, in Prov. 13.20. A•co•panion of fools shall be destroyed. If you see a Person profane, vicious, extravagant, I say, My Son if that sinner entice thee ⟨p. 45⟩consent thou not; shun him, fly him, he may be the cut-throat of thy Soul. Tell him, you cannot walk with him; except he'll take, The way that is called holy.
First, Can you not avoid the Society of those, by whom your own Regeneration may be discouraged! O then avoid it. What should hinder you that you should not be able to say, as in Psal. 26.3. I have not sat with vain person• ! There are ungodly ones that would prejudice your hearts against the power of Godliness, and that would entangle you in the snares of sin and hell: concerning those let me vehemently cry unto you in words like those of Moses, Depart I pray you, from these wicked ones, Lest you perish with them. O that you may be deter'd from the Fascinations of evil company, by that admonition of wisdome, in