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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.
But there are seven or eight matters o• most Awful CONSIDERATION, that have now to lay before you: and because of a singular Efficacy not only in the Assertions, but in the very Expressions of the Scripture, I shall Arrest your Thoughts, with so many Sentences taken out from the Word of God; thus it is with a, Thus saith the Lord, That I require you to Consider. And,
I. The first Consideration proper for you is that, in 2 Pet. 1.4. There are given to us, exceeding great and precious Promises, that by these you might be made partakers of the Divine Nature. CONSIDER, That all the great and precious Promises of God, will become your Portion, when once you are Born Again. As the Lord showed unto our Father Abraham, the Land of Promise, and said, Lift up now thine Eyes, and Look; for all the Land that thou seest, unto thee, will I give it; even so, Let us by Regeneration once become the Children of Abraham, and then, whatever good Things are contained in all the Promises of God, He will say, All that thou seest, and infinitely more than thou canst Think, will I give unto thee: Whatever Promise we can find in any part of the Bible, we may with an Appropriating Joy of Soul, say, Like one of the Ancients, thereupon, This word is mine! Here's a Promise that I am owner of! Let us become Regenerate, and from that Moment, the Almighty GOD, will by His Promise, give no Less than Himself unto us: we shall have an Interest in that Promise, Jer. 31.33. I will be their God. The Essence of God will then be for us, and according to the Promise, Our Maker will be our Husband. The Great God now promises, My power shall be thine to supply ⟨p. 50⟩thee, and, My Wisdom shall be thine to Direct thee, and, My Goodness thine to Relieve thee. The Subsistence of God will then also be by Promise Engaged for us: God the Father now promises, I will be thy Father: God the Son says, I will be thy Saviour: and God the […] says, I will be thy Strengthener. Behold, enough to satisfy the vast Cravings of the most Enlarged Soul! And yet, there is more for us; Let us become Regenerate, and there are Innumerable sure Mercies, which the Promise will make sure […] us, as the consequent hereupon. We shall have an Interest in that Promise,