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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.
2. To warn him of his danger, for security has a great hand in Apostasy; to remember him what a miserable condition he would cast himself into, if he should cast off fear, and restrain Prayer before God. Sometimes when men Apostatise, they fall into despair; and God suffers them to be miserably hurried and haunted by their own evil Conscience, and no means can deliver them; so it was with Judas. Sometimes God shortens their days, and don't suffer them to continue in this world: When they draw back, God withdraws protection from them, and they quickly dye: When they neglect seeking Eternal Life, God denies temporal life to them; and sometimes he leaves them to be very wicked; they sometimes become of the number of the basest of men. 2 Pet. 2.20, 21, 22. Mat. 12.44, 45. and they are in dreadful danger of Eternal Fire; and that misery that no Creature knows how to grapple with. Such Considerations as these may help him against the •oth and slightiness of his spirit.
2. To warn him of his danger, for security has a great hand in Apostacy; to remember him what a miserable condition he would cast himself into, if he should cast off fear, and restrain Prayer before God. Sometimes when men Apostatise, they fall into despair; and God suffers them to be miserably hurried and haunted by their own evil Conscience, and no means can deliver them; so it was with Judas. Sometimes God shortens their days, and don't suffer them to continue in this world: When they draw back, God withdraws protection from them, and they quickly dye: When they neglect seeking Eternal Life, God denies temporal life to them; and sometimes he leaves them to be very wicked; they sometimes become of the number of the basest of men. 2 Pet. 2.20, 21, 22. Mat. 12.44, 45. and they are in dreadful danger of Eternal Fire; and that misery that no Creature knows how to grapple with. Such Considerations as these may help him against the •oth and slightiness of his spirit.