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The falseness of the hopes of many professors, showed in a sermon preached in…The falseness of the hopes of many professors, shewed in a sermon preached in…
The falseness of the hopes of many professors, showed in a sermon preached in Boston, the 8th. of July, 1708. Being the lecture day. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.The falseness of the hopes of many professors, shewed in a sermon preached in Boston, the 8th. of July, 1708. Being the lecture day. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.
printed by Bartholomew Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1708
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THE Falseness of the Hopes Of Many PROFESSORS. › Application 2 › Question 2: Question. II.
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Question. II.
Is there nothing Substantial against you? You take notice of many things that make you afraid, as that you are ready to be carried away with Temptation, to do such things again as you have confessed before God. You are ready to excuse your selves from duty, you have an unsavoury Spirit; you are apt to seek your self, with a neglect of Gods glory; you are very formal in Duties of Religion; you feel a great deal of Pride and Discontent, and Worldliness, and Unbelief working in your own hearts: but you recover your selves, and say that such things are consistent with a principle of Grace: and you hear others of the People of God complaining of these things, ⟨p. 22⟩and good men are often in a bad frame. Paul found a law in his Members warring against the law of his mind. Abraham was scared into a denial of his Wife: Sarah denied that she laughed: Hezekiah's heart was lifted up, and he rendered not according to the benefit received: Jonah was froward, and Barnabas was carried away with dissimulation; and by such considerations they strengthen their hopes: but look more narrowly into things; Is there nothing Substantial against you? Do you not allow your self in the neglect of some duty? Do you not live in a way of disobedience to some of Gods Commands? Doth not a Self-seeking Spirit rule you? Do you Mourn for Sin as the greatest evil? Are you not under the dominion of some Lust? Are you not an utter stranger to the Glory of God, and Jesus Christ? Do you not live upon your own Righteousness? Is there nothing that is inconsistent with Grace? if there be any thing Evidential against you, your hopes are vain.
Is there nothing Substantial against you? You take notice of many things that make you afraid, as that you are ready to be carryed away with Temptation, to do such things again as you have confessed before God. You are ready to excuse your selves from duty, you have an unsavoury Spirit; you are apt to seek your self, with a neglect of Gods glory; you are very formal in Duties of Religion; you feel a great deal of Pride and Discontent, and Worldliness, and Unbelief working in your own hearts: but you recover your selves, and say that such things are consistent with a principle of Grace: and you hear others of the People of God complaining of these things,