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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.
It was a surprising passage that fell from the dying Lips of one in our Neighbourhood, who after fifty years of Impiety and Impenitence, becoming Regenerate, a few weeks before he Died, after he had Lain for a while speechless and senseless in his Death-pangs, he to the amazement of the Spectators, Recovered so far, as to utter these Rapturous EXPRESSIONS, O my Friends, Heaven Rings all over at this; They wonder at This; A Great and an Old Sinner coming to Heaven: O Glorify Free Grace for evermore. And so he gave up the Ghost. Why, this is what I have said; Become Regenerate, and all ⟨p. 59⟩Heaven will Ring with it. Hard-hearted sinner! How canst thou Resist Persuasives, thus full of Argument?
It was a surprizing passage that fell from the dying Lips of one in our Neighbourhood, who after fifty years of Impiety and Impenitence, becoming Regenerate, a few weeks before he Dy'd, after he had Lain for a while speechless and senseless in his Death-pangs, he to the amazement of the Spectators, Recovered so far, as to utter these Rapturous EXPRESSIONS, O my Friends, Heaven Rings all over at this; They wonder at This; A Great and an Old Sinner coming to Heaven: O Glorifie Free Grace for evermore. And so he gave up the Ghost. Why, this is what I have said; Become Regenerate, and all ⟨p. 59⟩Heaven will Ring with it. Hard-hearted sinner! How canst thou Resist Perswasives, thus full of Argument?
V. A fifth Consideration to Alarm you, may be that in Luc. 10.42. One Thing is Needful. CONSIDER, That without being Born again, there is nothing that will, nothing that can, secure the Welfare of your Immortal Souls. Regeneration is indeed a thing, which leaves no Room for Deliberation, inasmuch as it is most absolutely Necessary for us all. Never say, Shall I! Shall I! be Born again; for, Necessity is laid upon you, and Woe unto you, if you have it not! What provision have you made for your poor Souls, ye miserable Unregenerates? After all the Riches, and all the Honours, and all the Learning which you can here attain unto, how miserably still are your poor Souls all this while provided for? O that you would once at least Think to purpose upon that Word of our Lord Jesus, which a Great King was advised every day to Think upon; in