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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.
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 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.
Furthermore, 'tis not enough to say, I have had many good affections moving in me; I have had my heart mightily […] in the Ordinances of God; and many a […] have I […] fall upon the matters of Eternity Many an Ahab has been Terrified by the Judgments, or Threatening, of God. Many an H•r•l, […] himself gladded under an Evangelical Ministry. Many a Balaam has had slothful desires, after the Felicity of the Righteous. But what of all that?
Furthermore, 'tis not enough to say, I have had many good affections moving in me; I have had my heart mightily 〈…〉 in the Ordinances of God; and many a have I fall upon the matters of Eternity Many an Ahab has been Terrified by the Judgments, or Threatning, of God. Many an Hrl, himself gladded under an Evangelical Ministry. Many a Balaam has had slothful desires, after the Felicity of the Righteous. But what of all that?