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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.
After all the Goodness and Mercy wherewith God has followed you all your days▪ His demand is but that, in Deut. 10.12. And now what doth the Lord thy God Require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love Him? And O thou sinful Unregenerate! What a Vile Disingenuity is it for thee to be, as thou art continually A• fronting and Reproaching of God thy Saviour? It seems that he has, but as the Proverb speaks, Brought up the Whelps of Wolves, in all the Cost that He has laid out upon thee. And Oh! How will all thy past enjoyments come in, as confounding Witnesses against thee, in the day wherein, thou shalt find thy self to be Accountable. Particularly, Many a Life, has been spent & Lost in the Service of thy Life; & all the Creatures will with Loud Clamours plead against thee, saying, Lord, our Lives went, that so this Wretch might have lived unto Thy Glory! We were all abused inasmuch as he did it not!
After all the Goodness and Mercy wherewith God has follow'd you all your days▪ His demand is but that, in Deut. 10.12. And now what doth the Lord thy God Require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love Him? And O thou sinful Unregenerate! What a Vile Disingenuity is it for thee to be, as thou art continually A• fronting and Reproaching of God thy Saviour? It seems that he has, but as the Proverb speaks, Brought up the Whelps of Wolves, in all the Cost that He has laid out upon thee. And Oh! How will all thy past enjoyments come in, as confounding Witnesses against thee, in the day wherein, thou shalt find thy self to be Accountable. Particularly, Many a Life, has been spent & Lost in the Service of thy Life; & all the Creatures will with Loud Clamours plead against thee, saying, Lord, our Lives went, that so this Wretch might have lived unto Thy Glory! We were all abused inasmuch as he did it not!