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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.
Again, Tis not enough to say, My Gifts and Parts are considerable; the Furniture of my Mind is too rich to be […] of Heaven. Drowning Soul! All the•e things may be but as a Bag of Gold about thee, to sink thee so much the deeper in Perdition. I pray, what was the Death, what was the Last End that Balaam had? May not one, Speak with the Tongues of Men, and of Angels, and yet be destitute of a Saving Charity! Alas, a man, may be no less than an Able Minister of the Gospel▪ and yet fare no better than One of Noah's Carpenters after all.
Again, Tis not enough to say, My Gifts and Parts are considerable; the Furniture of my Mind is too rich to be 〈…〉 of Heaven. Drowning Soul! All the•e things may be but as a Bag of Gold about thee, to sink thee so much the deeper in Perdition. I pray, what was the Death, what was the Last End that Balaam had? May not one, Speak with the Tongues of Men, and of Angels, and yet be destitute of a Saving Charity! Alas, a man, may be no less than an Able Minister of the Gospel▪ and yet fare no better than One of Noahs Carpenters after all.
Further, 'Tis not enough to say, I am Civil, Honest, Harmless; none of my Neighbours are the worse for me. Was there not a Pharisee, who could boast, I am not as ⟨p. 61⟩other men, Extortioners, Unjust, Adulterers: and yet he was not Justified? Was there not a Young Man, who could boast, All the Commandments of the second Table, I have kept from my Youth: and yet […], Lacked One Thing? What Signified it unto Paul, that he was, Touching the Righteousness which is in the Law blameless?
Further, 'Tis not enough to say, I am Civil, Honest, Harmless; none of my Neighbours are the worse for me. Was there not a Pharisee, who could boast, I am not as ⟨p. 61⟩