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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
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.
The truth of this Opinion is much to be suspected from what has been left on Record to the contrary, by Hildersham, Perkins, Dod, Si•, Bins, Dike, Ball, Preston, Hooker, Shepard, Norton, &c. others of the like Stamp, whose judgment in matters of this nature does outweigh the judgment of thousand of others, though otherwise Learned men: but besides this, there is a great deal of light held forth in the Word of God in this matter. I will not argue from Israels ⟨p. 3⟩being led by Moses the Law-giver out of Egypt through a land of pits and drought, and fiery flying Serpents, before they were brought into Canaan by Joshua: Nor from the Legal Dispensation of the Covenant of Grace foregoing the Evangelical: Nor from John Baptists being sent as a Forerunner of Christ to prepare the way of the Lord: Nor from the Parable of the Prodigal, being in want, and becoming a Servant of a Citizen of the Country before he returned to his Father: Nor from the Dry Bones being in a disconsolate condition, before God put life into them: these things may better be made use of for Illustrations than Proofs.
The truth of this Opinion is much to be suspected from what has been left on Record to the contrary, by Hildersham, Perkins, Dod, Si•, B•ins, Dike, Ball, Preston, Hooker, Shepard, Norton, &c. others of the like Stamp, whose judgment in matters of this nature does outweigh the judgment of thousand of others, though otherwise Learned men: but besides this, there is a great deal of light held forth in the Word of God in this matter. I will not argue from Israels ⟨p. 3⟩being led by Moses the Law-giver out of Egypt through a land of pits and drought, and fiery flying Serpents, before they were brought into Canaan by Joshua: Nor from the Legal Dispensation of the Covenant of Grace foregoing the Evangelical: Nor from John Baptists being sent as a Forerunner of Christ to prepare the way of the Lord: Nor from the Parable of the Prodigal, being in want, and becoming a Servant of a Citizen of the Country before he returned to his Father: Nor from the Dry Bones being in a disconsolate condition, before God put life into them: these things may better be made use of for Illustrations than Proofs.