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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.
SOMETIMES he complains that he is followed with horrible injections, blasphemous thoughts, and other wicked thoughts, that are a great affliction to him, and take away the comfort of his life, they make him a terror to himself. In this Case he may be told,
SOMETIMES he complains that he is followed with horrible injections, blasphemous tho'ts, and other wicked thoughts, that are a great affliction to him, and take away the comfort of his life, they make him a terrour to himself. In this Case he may be told,
1. That so far as they are injected by Satan, they are not imputed to him. The heart of man, is very bad, and from that fountain of sin, exceeding wicked thoughts may arise; but when persons ⟨p. 39⟩are violently followed with such thoughts, they are usually injected by Satan, they are some of his fiery darts spoken of, Eph. 6.16. And when he casts them in, the man is no more guilty, than he that hears a man blaspheme: if a man were perfectly holy, that could not prevent such injections if God let Satan loose upon him.
1. That so far as they are injected by Satan, they are not imputed to him. The heart of man, is very bad, and from that fountain of sin, exceeding wicked thoughts may arise; but when persons ⟨p. 39⟩are violently followed with such thoughts, they are usually injected by Satan, they are some of his fiery darts spoken of, Eph. 6.16. And when he casts them in, the man is no more guilty, than he that hears a man blassheme: if a man were perfect'y holy, that could not prevent such injections if God let Satan loose upon him.