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The trial of assurance set forth in a sermon preached at Boston upon a…The tryal of assurance set forth in a sermon preached at Boston upon a…
The trial of assurance set forth in a sermon preached at Boston upon a lecture day July 7th. 1698 / by Solomon Stoddard ...The tryal of assurance set forth in a sermon preached at Boston upon a lecture day July 7th. 1698 / by Solomon Stoddard ...
printed by B. Green, 1698
The TRIAL of Assurance. › Application 2: USE. II.The TRYAL of Assurance. › Application 2: USE. II.
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USE. II.
Others cannot be certain of a mans sincerity from his Conversation: if others see men carry well, they presently say, they are good men […] but they don't know it from thence; there i• indeed ground enough for Charity; but not for Assurance: for whatever mens Conversation be if they don't see the actings of Grace, they can not be assured that the man is a Godly man. It is not good to depend upon the judgment o• others, for they do not know, whether a man be sincere or not. All the external acts of Charity, Piety, Justice and Sobriety, may be performed by a man that has no Grace; Prudence and Conscience may produce them all: and one that has no Grace may carry as well in the eye of the world, as he that has it. Peter does but suppose Silvanus to be faithful. 1 Pet. 5.12.
Others cannot be certain of a mans sincerity from his Conversation: if others see men carry well, they presently say, they are good men 〈…〉 but they don't know it from thence; there i• indeed ground enough for Charity; but not for Assurance: for whatever mens Conversation be if they don't see the actings of Grace, they can not be assured that the man is a Godly man. It is not good to depend upon the judgment o• others, for they do not know, whether a man be sincere or not. All the external acts of Charity, Piety, Justice and Sobriety, may be performed by a man that has no Grace; Prudence and Conscience may produce them all: and one that has no Grace may carry as well in the eye of the world, as he that has it. Peter does but suppose Silvanus to be faithful.