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The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in…
The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Showed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferior Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Shewed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferiour Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.
printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1708
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3. Many that judge that Persons should be Converted before they come to the Sacrament, do run into a ⟨p. 21⟩great fault, viz. they persuade Persons that they are Converted before they are: they are zealous against mens coming to the Lords-Supper in an Unconverted condition, yet advise & encourage such persons to come under a notion that they are Converted; if persons do but carry civilly & religiously, they think they are Converted, and urge them to join to the Church; hereby abundance of wrong is done; men are greatly hardened in a natural Estate: and they are laid under great Temptation to flatter themselves, as if the bitterness of death were past: this is a means to prevent many mens Conversion; if men are made to believe that they are Godly before they be, that is like to prove a mighty impediment unto their Conversion, they don't lye open to the threatenings of the Word, they think others spoken to, and they pity them; but they are not sensible of their own danger: Joh. 9. 41. Because you say, you see, therefore your sin remaineth.
3. Many that judge that Persons should be Converted before they come to the Sacrament, do run into a ⟨p. 21⟩great fault, viz. they perswade Persons that they are Converted before they are: they are zealous against mens coming to the Lords-Supper in an Unconverted condition, yet advise & incourage such persons to come under a notion that they are Converted; if persons do but carry civilly & religiously, they think they are Converted, and urge them to joyn to the Church; hereby abundance of wrong is done; men are greatly hardned in a natural Estate: and they are laid under great Temptation to flatter themselves, as if the bitterness of death were past: this is a means to prevent many mens Conversion; if men are made to believe that they are Godly before they be, that is like to prove a mighty impediment unto their Conversion, they don't lye open to the threatnings of the Word, they think others spoken to, and they pity them; but they are not sensible of their own danger: Joh. 9. 41. Because you say, you see, therefore your sin remaineth.