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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.
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.
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 onely still informed, It is Good for you to Draw near unto God, but also the GOLDEN Scepter is held out; you may Draw Near! Altho' 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.
Again, You have a Time, and it is a Fit Time. I may say to you, Arise, the Master calleth thee; and then I am sure, 'tis very unfit, that you should refuse or defer to come in at His Call! Shall that Lord of Lords, whom all the Angels in Heaven attend upon, wait the Leisure of a Despicable, a Refractory, a sinful Worm! In your own Distress, you cry, O Lord Hear, Defer not! Why then do you Defer, when you Hear of your Duty? I am to tell you, Old Age, and Sickness, are no Convenient Season, for a Regeneration to be put off unto; tho' of That you Dream, when you procrastinate until, A more convenient Season.