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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.
Thirdly, Can you not Attend the Ministry of that Word whereby Regeneration is Effected? O then Attend it. It is said, in 1 Pet. 1.23. We are, Born again by the Word of God, which Liveth and Abideth for ever. Wherefore, place your selves as much as you can, under the Dispensations of that New Creating Word! Were you daily conversing with the Word of God, you would therein •ie at the Pool, in the House of Mercy: who knows, but God may there meet you, with a Cure of all your Maladies? Can you not Read a Bible, as well as a Gazette, or a Romance? Can you not as easily go to a Sermon, as a Tavern? O be continually waiting, upon Wisdoms Lively Oracles, that so you may, Hear and Live! Said the Apostle, in 1 Cor. 4.15. In Christ Jesus, I have Begotten you, through' the Gospel: so then, if the Gospel were always in your Eyes or Ears, 'tis Likely that you might be, Begotten of Christ Jesus. The Breath of Satan was that which did corrupt you, and the ⟨p. 47⟩Breath of Jesus may now Amend you. 'Tis said, Where the word of a King is, there is Power: If then, you seriously set your selves before and under the Word of the Eternal King, it may have such a power on you, as to bring you home unto God. When two or three Scriptures were Quoted unto Peters Hearers, they were soon; Pierced in Heart; and by the use of the Scriptures may you come to be as well, Changed in Heart. When Austin was called upon, Take up and Read, then the close of the Thirteenth Chapter to the Romans whereto he was directed, proved the means of his Conversion. I say then, Take up and Read.
Thirdly, Can you not Attend the Ministry of that Word whereby Regeneration is Effected? O then Attend it. It is said, in 1 Pet. 1.23. We are, Born again by the Word of God, which Liveth and Abideth for ever. Wherefore, place your selves as much as you can, under the Dispensations of that New Creating Word! Were you daily conversing with the Word of God, you would therein •ie at the Pool, in the House of Mercy: who knows, but God may there meet you, with a Cure of all your Maladies? Can you not Read a Bible, as well as a Gazet, or a Romance? Can you not as easily go to a Sermon, as a Tavern? O be continually waiting, upon Wisdoms Lively Oracles, that so you may, Hear and Live! Said the Apostle, in