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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.
VII, A Seventh Consideration, to be as a Go•• unto you, must be that in Ezek. 18.31, 32. Why will you Die? Turn yourselves, and Live ye. […], That if you are not Born again, you are to Die for evermore. You have no •••ng to live in this world; but I must plainly […] you, that if you are not New-Born before you Die, it had been good for you, that you never had been Born at all. If you go Unregenerate out of this World, there will be No Remedy nor escaping, but you must be Miserable in another; you must unavoidably Go down! even, Go down! where, The Fire ⟨p. 65⟩shall never be quenched. If you consult the Old-Testament, there you are told in, Psal. 9.17. The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget God. If you consult the New-Testament, there you are told, in Math. 25.46. The wicked shall go away into everlasting Punishment. So then, if your Departing Souls a little while hence, are found without the marks of Regeneration upon them, the fiends of Darkness will presently snatch them, seize them, and hold those Naked Sou• in Chains of Darkness, until the dreadful Day of God. At the Arrival of which Notable and Amazing Day, when the Son of God shall cause the Mountains to quake at the Sound of His Descending Chariots, and the Hills to melt at the presence of His Majesty, and your Souls again to animate these Contaminated Bodies, you must with fiery Thunders be sentenced unto, The Vengeance of Eternal Fire. When Corah and his company went down into the Pit, all the people, tis said, fled At the cry of them, saying, lest the earth swallow us up also! Were the Hideous and Horrible Pit of Hell set open before your eyes, you might see Millions of Unregenerates there tortured by the rebukes, with which, as with Flashes of Hot Lightning, the Eternal Spirit of God, is for ever smiting of them: there they lie, they vex, they roar, I am tormented in this flame: and will not you now fly at this formidable cry, ⟨p. 66⟩