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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.
IV. A Fourth Consideration to Encourage ⟨p. 56⟩you, may be that in Luc. 15.10 I say unto you, there is Joy in the presence of the Angels of God, over one sinner that Repenteth. CONSIDER, That, by your being born again, you will fill not Earth only, but Heaven too, with Joy. All the Good men on Earth to whom the Notice of your Regeneration, shall arrive, will be Ravished at the News of it. Perhaps there are some ungodly Fools, that may flout and scoff, at your turning unto God, and say, What? you are turning a Saint; are you? But they not being Saints, are much worse than Brutes; and in the mean time for those that are truly wise, and that are best able to Judge what Wisdom is, Of them you shall be had in Honour. The Saints are, The Excellent in the Earth, and, More Excellent than their Neighbours; Their Good word is of Ten thousand times more account, than all the commendation of them that are, The men of this world: and whenever you become Regenerate, all those your Excellent brethren, will immediately Glorify God in you and for you: as when a Sa•• was becoming a Paul, tis reported, in Act. 9.21. All ••at heard it, were amazed: so upon your Change among the people of God, All that see it, will be affected! However, you will set all Heaven on rejoicing, when-ever you shall be brought home to God.
IV. A Fou•th Consideration to Encourage ⟨p. 56⟩you, may be that in Luc. 15.10 I say unto you, there is Joy in the presence of the Angels of God, over one sinner that Repenteth. CONSIDER, That, by your being born again, you will fill not Earth only, but Heaven too, with Joy. All the Good men on Earth to whom the Notice of your Regeneration, shall arrive, will be Ravished at the News of it. Perhaps there are some ungodly Fools, that may flout and scoff, at your turning unto God, and say, VVhat? you are turning a Saint; are you? But they not being Saints, are much worse than Bruits; and in the mean time for those that are truly wise, and that are best able to Judge what Wisdom is, Of them you shall be had in Honour. The Saints are, The Excellent in the Earth, and, More Excellent than their Neighbours; Their Good word is of Ten thousand times more account, than all the commendation of them that are, The men of this world: and whenever you become Regenerate, all those your Excellent bretheren, will immediately Glorify God in you and for you: as when a Sa was becoming a Paul, tis reported, in