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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.
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⟩other men, Extortioners, Unjust, Adulterers: and yet he was not Justify'd? 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 Signify'd it unto Paul, that he was, Touching the Righteousness which is in the Law blameless?
Moreover, 'Tis not enough to say, My Religious Exercises are not a few; I Pray, I Hear, I Fast, and use much Devotion ▪ The Jews have a saying, If only two men in the World were to be Saved, the One of them would be a Scrib•e, the other a Pharisee. 'Twas They, who could pretend, I fast twice a Week, and give Tithes of all that I possess.. And yet, what said […] who is Truth it self! Except your Righteous•••• shall exceed that of the Scribes and I […] shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Moreover, 'Tis not enough to say, My Religious Exercises are not a few; I Pray, I Hear, I Fast, and use much Devotion ▪ The Jews have a saying, If only two men in the World were to be Saved, the One of them would be a Scribe, the other a Pharisee. 'Twas They, who could pretend, I fast twice a Week, and give Tithes of all that I possess.. And yet, what said who is Truth it self! Except your Righteous shall exceed that of the Scribes and I shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.