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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.
O Think on the kindnesses of the Ever-Gracious God: And let thy Heart relent, as did the heart of Saul, when he saw David sparing of him; say, Lord I cannot go on to wrong Thee any more!
III. A Third Consideration, That may be needful for you, is that▪ in Psal 90.3. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return ye Children of Men. CONSIDER, That the Judgments of God, upon yourselves and others, are vehement calls upon you to be Born again. Have you not felt many Afflictions upon yourselves▪ Why, Hear the Rod; there is a Cry in that which makes you to Cry: it says thus much, O that you were Born again. It is said, The Lord scourgeth every Son whom He Receiveth; but He Scourges you that so you may become willing to be Sons. The Cry of Sickness is, O that by Regeneration you may be Born twice, before you die once through Mortality: your outward Man is decaying, see then that your Inward may be renewed! The Cry of Reproach is, You that have a Bad Name, Look after a New Name; you that have your Names Trampled in the Mire of the Earth, see that your Names be Written in Heaven; and whatever else you may be called, make sure that you be called, The Children of God! The Cry of Bondage is, Look after the Redemption of your souls; Ask the Son of God that you may be free indeed; Get out of the Bond of Iniquity! The Cry of Poverty is, Lay up a Treasure in Heaven. Do you want food! Be concerned about the Meat which Endures to everlasting Life. Do you want Clothes? Be concerned about the Fine Linen, which is the Righteousness of the Saints. Do you want a dwelling! ⟨p. 55⟩Be solicitous for a Room in the Fathers House, where there are many Mansions! And if you have any Friends taken from you, That is the Cry of it, Close now with the Lord Jesus Christ, who is better than Ten Sons, Let God become your God, who is an All-sufficient one! It is the Direction of Heaven in Job 34.31.32. Surely, it is meet to be said unto God, I have born chastisement, I will not offend any more. That which I see not, Teach thou me; if I have done Iniquity, I will do no more. A Thief on a Cross, Blaspheming the Lord, was indeed a very rueful sight; but every afflicted person remaining Unregenerate, is indeed such a sight. Again, have you not seen many Miseries upon Others also? Why, there is a Lesson given us by all those calamities, like that which the Historian tells us, was upon the Statue of Sennacherib, Let the spectator become a Godly person; that is, One Born again. When you see others made the Monuments of Gods Anger, it cries to you;