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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
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AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE. › Proposition 2: The Second PROPOSITION.
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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 Mat. 16.26. What is a man profited if be gain the whole World, and Loose his own Soul? But it may be that you have conceived some Hopes of your Everlasting Blessedness, upon some other feeble Accounts; and yet these also, without Regeneration, will be found but so many Cobwebs, before the Fiery Besom of Destruction, at the last. ⟨p. 60⟩As now, 'tis not enough to say, I have many Spiritual Privileges, which may stand my Soul in stead. What though you have been partakers of the Sacraments? The Israelites were so, and yet it is said, God was not well-pleased with them. What tho' you are Descended of Parents that were the Favourites of Heaven? The Jews bragged, We have Abraham for our Father! but our Lord could Reply upon them, You are of your Father the Devil. In a word, whatever External Prerogative thou hast, in the Church of God, thou mayst be a woeful Citizen of Capernaum at the last.
V. A fifth Consideration to Alarum 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 Wellfare 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 Wo 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