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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.
And yet again; You have a Time, but it is an Only Time. God has not Entrusted you, with so much as one Moment; if you do not now this Moment become Regenerate, it is possible that you may not have another; it is less probable that you will in another. Stay but a little more, Delay a little more, Dally a little more, cry, A little more Slumber! and you'll be gone where, O Lord, They cannot Hope for thy Truth! But if once you are gone down, into the Floods of ardent Sulphur, then, ye Foolish Ones, 'twill avail nothing to cry, Lord, Lord, Open yet the Door of Regeneration for us! To cry, Lord, Lord, One Sermon more! To cry, Lord, Lord, One Sabbath more! To beg with Tears of Blood, Lord, One Season of Grace more! will be of no Avail at all.
Come then, Bring this matter to an Issue; Do not any longer keep Wounding of your selves, among the Monuments of the Dead. 'Tis thus that the matter lies: Thou hast been horribly depraved by that Original Sin, which is derived unto thee from thy First Father; but thy Ti•• in this ⟨p. 70⟩World is allowed thee, that thou mayst obtain a Deliverance from that Image of the Devil, by such an Union, as will be attended with and productive of a Likeness, to the Lord Jesus Christ. If when thy State of probation here shall come unto its end, thou art found utterly Uncured of those Disorders which thou wast Born withal, and utterly Destitute of a Principle which may Dispose thee to The Life of God; those Characters of Hell upon thy Soul, will become Eternally Indelible. And it is Naturally impossible, that these Everlasting Impressions of Sin upon thy Soul, should be unaccompanied with Intolerable Griefs, and Fears, and Horrors; and Infinite Regrets must become after a sort Essential to that lamentable Soul. But, if thy Soul might now have a New Frame, a Frame Gracious and Heavenly given thereunto, thou wilt shortly see that an Eternal Glory, is The self same thing for which Almighty God is working of thee. Say then, Are you willing to be New-Born, or No? If you are now but made willing, I hope, that the God who has thus far persuaded you, will yet more powerfully and effectually persuade you to be more than Almost Regenerate: And O the Crown of Rejoicing, that we shall then be to each other, In the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ