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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.
VIII. And now there is one Consideration more to quicken you; 'tis that in 2 Cor. 6.2. Behold, Now is the Agreeable Time! Behold, Now is the Day of Salvation! CONSIDER, That NOW, NOW is your Time to be Born again. Let me lay my Hand upon you, as the Angel upon Lot, of old, that I may hasten and hurry you out from the Sodom, of your Unregeneracy. You are to be spurred as Paul was, Arise, why Tarriest thou? You are to be Roused like David, Save thy Self to night, for To morrow thou mayst be SLAIN. Regeneration is the Kings Business; and I may say thereof, It Requires Hast! You have Now a Time to be Born again; but O Think, what a Time it is.
VIII. And now there is one Consideration more to quicken you; 'tis that in 2 Cor. 6.2. Behold, Now is the Agreeable Time! Behold, Now is the Day of Salvation! CONSIDER, That NOW, NOW is your Time to be Born again. Let me lay my Hand upon you, as the Angel upon Lot, of old, that I may hasten and hurry you out from the Sodom, of your Unregeneracy. You are to be spur'd as Paul was, Arise, why Tarriest thou? You are to be Rowz'd like David, Save thy Self to night, for To morrow thou mayst be SLAIN. Regeneration is the Kings Business; and I may say thereof, It Requires Hast! You have Now a Time to be Born again; but O Think, what a Time it is.
You have a Time, and it is a Sure Time. After all your Iniquities, and all your Back. slidings, it is not yet after all, Too Late, for you to become Regenerate. Behold, After so Long a Time, To Day if you will Hear the voice of God! You are not only still informed, It is Good for you to Draw near unto God, but also the GOLDEN Sceptre is held out; you may Draw Near! Although' you have wasted many and many a year, in the Tents of Wickedness, there is a Proclamation issued forth from the Lord, Yet Return unto me, and I will not cause my ⟨p. 68⟩Anger to fall upon you. Hear this, ye Inveterate Unregenerates, and Let your Hearts Relent; The King of Heaven is a Merciful King.