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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. › I shall apply this Warning particularly.
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I shall apply this Warning particularly.
1. To Ignorant Professors. When Ignorant Persons have a case depending in the Law, it is an easy thing for a crafty Fellow to make them believe that their case is good: So Satan has great advantage on Ignorant Professors; blind men may easily be led into the ditch. Some men be Ignorant which be certain signs, and which be uncertain; they are likely to depend upon those that are uncertain. Some men cannot tell wherein the Nature of true Faith doth lye, neither are they able to distinguish common from Saving Grace; such are in great danger to be imposed on; Ignorant men are in the next preparation to be deceived: The darkness of the mind exposes them; it is easy to deceive the simple, Rom. 16.18. Men ⟨p. 26⟩that do not know Silver, may easily be cheated about it. Men that are ignorant of the Law, are not fit to be Judges. Ignorance makes men bold to continue in dangerous ways. It is strange that knowing Persons should continue in dangerous ways, 1 Cor. 6.9. but 'tis not strange to see Ignorant People continue in such ways.
1. To Ignorant Professors. When Ignorant Persons have a case depending in the Law, it is an easy thing for a crafty Fellow to make them believe that their case is good: So Satan has great advantage on Ignorant Professors; blind men may easily be led into the ditch. Some men be Ignorant which be certain signs, and which be uncertain; they are likely to depend upon those that are uncertain. Some men cannot tell wherein the Nature of true Faith doth lye, neither are they able to distinguish common from Saving Grace; such are in great danger to be imposed on; Ignorant men are in the next preparation to be deceived: The darkness of the mind exposes them; it is easy to deceive the simple, Rom. 16.18