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A guide to Christ. Or, The way of directing souls that are under the…
A guide to Christ. Or, The way of directing souls that are under the work of conversion. Compiled for the help of young ministers: and may be serviceable to private Christians, who are enquiring the way to Zion. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. and Pastor of the church in Northampton. ; With an epistle prefixed, by the Reverend Dr. Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by J. Allen for N. Boone, 1714
Directions How to guide Souls through the Work of Conversion.
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.
1. To encourage him: for the discouragements that he is under, are a great cause of Apostasy; therefore it is best to hearten him up: the notion of the giant-like stature of the Canaanites, and the strength of their Walls, was a great inducement to Israel to entertain thoughts of returning back to Egypt. So it is in this ⟨p. 34⟩Case: And he may be encouraged two ways.
1. To encourage him: for the discouragements that he is under, are a great cause of Apostacy; therefore it is best to hearten him up: the notion of the giant-like stature of the Canaanites, and the strength of their Walls, was a great inducement to Israel to entertain thoughts of returning back to Egypt. So it is in this ⟨p. 34⟩Case: And he may be encouraged two ways.
1. By showing him the possibility of his obtaining mercy. So Caleb told the people they were well able to overcome, and if God delighted in them, he would bring them in; thus he may be encouraged, by showing of him that God can help him, and that nothing does appear to show that God will not help him; his mercy is free, he has pardoned others as bad as he; his Providences to him are consistent with designs of Grace.
1. By shewing him the possibility of his obtaining mercy. So Caleb told the people they were well able to overcome, and if God delighted in them, he would bring them in; thus he may be encouraged, by shewing of him that God can help him, and that nothing does appear to shew that God will not help him; his mercy is free, he has pardoned others as bad as he; his Providences to him are consistent with designs of Grace.