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The efficacy of the fear of Hell, to restrain men from sin. Showed in…The efficacy of the fear of Hell, to restrain men from sin. Shewed in…
The efficacy of the fear of Hell, to restrain men from sin. Showed in a sermon before the inferior court in Northampton, Decem. 3d, 1712. : Together with the benefit of the Gospel, to those that are wounded in spirit. Showed in several sermons, from Luke 4th. 18, 19. On the occasion of a more than ordinary pouring out of the spirit of God. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.The efficacy of the fear of Hell, to restrain men from sin. Shewed in a sermon before the inferiour court in Northampton, Decem. 3d, 1712. : Together with the benefit of the Gospel, to those that are wounded in spirit. Shewed in several sermons, from Luke 4th. 18, 19. On the occasion of a more than ordinary pouring out of the spirit of God. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.
printed by Thomas Fleet for Samuel Phillips, 1713
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2 Q. What is it that is offered to these Captives?
A. Not a Mitigation of the Extremity of their Captivity, but Deliverance. It is a Mercy to poor Captives, to have some Pity showed them in their Bondage. Psal. 106.46. He made them to be pitied of all those that carried them Captive. And indeed there is some difference among those that are Satan's Captives. Some are made to do abundance more Drudgery than others: They are made to blast their Names, and wound their Consciences more than others, and they go along faster in the way to Destruction than others: But the thing that God offers to Men in the Gospel, is not a Mitigation of, but Deliverance from Captivity. Christ Jesus is raised up to be a Deliverer, to be a Saviour, and he doth deliver Men. His Work is to deliver them, who through fear of Death, were all their Life-time subject to Bondage Heb. 2.15. And this is that which is offered in the Gospel. He offers to make them Happy ⟨p. 114⟩that were Miserable, to save them from the power of Satan. Act. 26.18 To turn them from Darkness to Light, and from the power of Satan unto God. To deliver them from the power of Darkness, Col. 1.13. He offers to set at Liberty, those that were in Bondage.
A. Not a Mitigation of the Extremity of their Captivity, but Deliverance. It is a Mercy to poor Captives, to have some Pity shewed them in their Bondage. Psal. 106.46. He made them to be pitied of all those that carried them Captive. And indeed there is some difference among those that are Satan's Captives. Some are made to do abundance more Drudgery than others: They are made to blast their Names, and wound their Consciences more than others, and they go along faster in the way to Destruction than others: But the thing that God offers to Men in the Gospel, is not a Mitigation of, but Deliverance from Captivity. Christ Jesus is raised up to be a Deliverer, to be a Saviour, and he doth deliver Men. His Work is to deliver them, who through fear of Death, were all their Life-time subject to Bondage