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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, Can you not present some kind of Supplication before the Lord, for your own Regeneration? O then present it. There was a man, to whom, although' it had been said, Thy Heart is not Right, yet there was that Advice given, in Acts 8.22. Pray to God! If the Life of your Bodies lay at stake, would you not be in Earnest for Deliverance? Behold, O Dying Sinner, Thy SOUL, Thy Soul is in the very Belly of Hell; and why then dost thou not like the Psalmist, Call upon the Name of the Lord, and say, I beseech thee to Deliver my Soul! Fall down upon thy Knees before the God of Heaven, and pray, and say, as in Jer. 31.18. O Turn thou me, and I shall be Turned. Beg of Him, Lord, fulfil in me the good pleasure of thy Goodness, and the work of Faith with power! Plead with Him, Lord, thou hast said, that there are some to whom thou wilt give a New Heart and a New Spirit; and if thou wilt, thou canst make such a Wretch as I am, the partaker of such a Blessedness! An Old Nature, is like an Old Devil; it goes not out, without much Prayer to God. Cavil not, My Prayers are an Abomination: it will be a greater Abomination ⟨p. 46⟩to Neglect them, than to Perform them; at least, you may see whether He that regards the Cries of the Needy Ravens and Lions, may not have His Ear open unto thine; and if it may be said of thee, Behold he Prays! 'tis hopeful, thou art upon such a Turn, that it may be further said, This poor man Cried, and the Lord Heard and Saved!
Secondly, Can you not present some kind of Supplication before the Lord, for your own Regeneration? O then present it. There was a man, to whom, altho' it had been said, Thy Heart is not Right, yet there was that Advice given, in Acts 8.22. Pray to God! If the Life of your Bodies lay at stake, would you not be in Earnest for Deliverance? Behold, O Dying Sinner, Thy SOUL, Thy Soul is in the very Belly of Hell; and why then dost thou not like the Psalmist, Call upon the Name of the Lord, and say, I bese•ch thee to Deliver my Soul! Fall down upon thy Knees before the God of Heaven, and pray, and say, as in