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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 USE. See how great a benefit the Gospel is to many Men. Indeed there be a great many Men that are not the better for it; they have bought Bibles, and have Read often in them, and heard the Gospel preached, but they are not the better, but the worse for it. It had been better for them, if they had never heard a Sermon, never seen one Leaf of the Bible, if they had lived in Turkey. Math. 11.22. It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment, than for them. But it is very beneficial to others: It is more advantage to them, than all the Wealth of the World would be. They are set at Liberty thereby. Luk. 4.18. It sets at Liberty those that were Bruised. Such as were in the Condition of Prisoners.
1. They are delivered from the danger of Condemnation. Woe to those Men that shall be condemned at the last Day. They shall be cursed with a Witness. You have the Sentence, Math. 25.41. Depart ye cursed into everlasting Fire, prepared for the Devil and, ⟨p. 173⟩his Angels. But these Men are out of the reach of that Curse. They are in danger of some smaller Calamities, Pains, Sickness, Reproaches, Losses, but not of Condemnation. The Day of Judgment will be a Glorious and Comfortable Day to them. That is a time of Refreshing from the Presence of the Lord. There shall not be one Hair of their Head singed, nor the smell of Fire pass upon them. There is abundant Security that they shall not be Condemned. They are made meet for Heaven; they are become the Children of God: They are interested in the Righteousness of Christ: They have the Covenant of Grace to secure them: Death will do them no hurt; they shall be absolved in the Day of Judgment. Joh. 5.24. They shall not enter into Condemnation, but are passed from Death to Life.