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Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son
Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son; are blessed. A sermon preached at Boston lecture, July 3d. 1712. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Seven lines from John]
printed by B Green for Benj. Eliot, 1712
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DIVINE Teachings, Render Persons BLESSED. › Application 2: USE, II. Of EXAMINATION.
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1. Such as have been taught by the Father, have seen themselves utterly blind, just before that revelation. Christ Jesus came into the World, that they which see not might see, Joh. 19.39. Every man is blind by Nature, and he shows them this blindness just before he puts this light into them. Some men say, They were never at any loss about the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, they always believed it; they may be assured that it hath never been revealed to them by the Father. Some others say, They have many times seen their blindness; truly there be partial convictions of it very frequently, and yet men remain blind. But it is the manner of God just before he lets in this heavenly light, to make a thorough discovery of this natural blindness, then he gives light to them that sat in darkness, Luk. 1.7, 9. He don't convince men of their blindness a Twelve month before, and suffer them to loose the sense of it, and then reveal Christ to them: but he makes them sensible that they are in Egyptian darkness, that no teaching, nor arguing, nor consideration is sufficient to enlighten them, and in this extremity God makes the Sun of Righteousness to arise on them: and they are delivered out ⟨p. 25⟩of the Kingdom of darkness, and translated into the Kingdom of Christ.
1. Such as have been taught by the Father, have seen themselves utterly blind, just before that revelation. Christ Jesus came into the World, that they which see not might see, Joh. 19.39. Every man is blind by Nature, and he shews them this blindness just before he puts this light into them. Some men say, They were never at any loss about the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, they always believed it; they may be assured that it hath never been revealed to them by the Father. Some others say, They have many times seen their blindness; truly there be partial convictions of it very frequently, and yet men remain blind. But it is the manner of God just before he lets in this heavenly light, to make a thorough discovery of this natural blindness, then he gives light to them that sat in darkness,