Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…

Name: Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693

[6], 154 [i.e. 162] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 39k words · Evans 654 · Wing M1164

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AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE. › Proposition 2: The Second PROPOSITION.

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:67p. 50–51¶1

and that Promise, Thou shalt Guide me with thy Counsel, and afterwards Receive me to Glory. All Temporal Blessings for which we may have occasion, will now be made over to us; but especiall• all Spiritual Ones; The chief Things of […] Ancient Mountains, and the precious […] Everlasting Hills. Obdurate ⟨p. 51⟩Sinner, Thy Heart is more Impenetrable than the Nether Millstone, if this Consideration do not move thee, melt thee, break thee! Abraham could readily forego a Son, for a Promise; and wilt not thou forego a Sin for all the Promises? What a profane Esau art thou, to Despise all of this Invaluable Blessedness? But

and that Promise, Thou shalt Guide me with thy Counsel, and afterwards Receive me to Glory. All Temporal Blessings for which we may have occasion, will now be made over to us; but especiall• all Spiritual Ones; The chief Things of 〈…〉 Ancient Mountains, and the precious 〈…〉 Everlasting Hills. Obdurate ⟨p. 51⟩Sinner, Thy Heart is more Impenetrable than the Nether Milstone, if this Consideration do not move thee, melt thee, break thee! Abraham could readily forego a Son, for a Promise; and wilt not thou forego a Sin for all the Promises? What a profane Esau art thou, to Despise all of this Invaluable Blessedness? But

:68p. 51–53¶2

II. A second Consideration useful for you, may be that in Isa. 1.2. Hear, O Heavens, and Give ear, O Earth; for the Lord hath spoken; I have Nourished and brought up Children, and they have Rebelled against me. CONSIDER, That until you are Born again, all the more than Fatherly Mercies of God are both Ill bestowed, and Ill Requited. The God of Heaven has dealt like a Father with you, all your Days hitherunto: and you speak but Reasonably, when you say unto Him, Our Father! It is He that has produced you from Nothing, into Being, and it is He that has preserved you in Being from Threatening and Invading Mischief. They are Gods Creatures which Comfort you, and Cherish you; 'tis His Air you breath, 'tis His Ground you tread, they are His Clothes that Cover you. It is He that every Hour defends you from a Million Deaths; and supplies you with multitudes of Conveniences both for Inward and Outward Man. And what is the Language of

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