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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.
If thou hast not the Heart of the Leviathan, the Monster that is, made without Fear, surely thou canst not but be afraid of those Iron Hands! Methinks, thou shouldest with an aching heart, hear the almighty God asking of thee, as in Evek. 22.14. Can thine heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the day that I shall deal with thee? Methinks, when thou be, beholdest the Thousands of Thousands that are Lingering in the Anguishes of the Vault below, thou shouldest cry out as Moses, when he beheld the Careases falling in the Wilderness, in Psal. 90, 11. Who knows the Power […] thine Anger! And one would think, thou shouldest now be willing to be Regenerate, being Warned thus to Flee from the Wrath to come: Even from a Wrath, so to come, that there will be still, more to come, after tis already come, and, more to come, after it has been inflicted for more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Sky hath Stars, or the Shore ⟨p. 67⟩hath Sands, or as the Ocean has Drops of Water in it.
If thou hast not the Heart of the Leviathan, the Monster that is, made without Fear, surely thou canst not but be afraid of those Iron Hands! Methinks, thou shouldest with an aking heart, hear the almighty God asking of thee, as in Evek. 22.14. Can thine heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the day that I shall deal with thee? Methinks, when thou be, beholdest the Thousands of Thousands that are Lingring in the Anguishes of the Vault below, thou shouldest cry out as Moses, when he behe'd the Careases falling in the Wilderness, in Psal. 90, 11. Who knows the Power 〈…〉 thine Anger! And one would think, thou shouldest now be willing to be Regenerate, being Warned thus to Flee from the Wrath to come: Even from a Wrath, so to come, that there will be still, more to come, after tis already come, and, more to come, after it has been inflicted for more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Sky hath Stars, or the Shoar ⟨p. 67⟩hath Sands, or as the Ocean has Drops of VVater in it.