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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, 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 Prov. 13.20. A•co•panion of fools shall be destroyed. If you see a Person profane, vitious, extravagant, I say, My Son if that sinner entice thee ⟨p. 45⟩