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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.
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2. That he may see much of his own heart in these murmurings. And indeed these murmurings ⟨p. 62⟩are a great occasion sometimes to bring men off from their own righteousnesses: Therefore it is good to lead him on this occasion into the sense of the wretchedness of his heart; he may see in these workings much of his own hypocrisy, he has owned many times the need he has of free mercy; and that he deserved Condemnation; yet now he murmurs as if God owed Salvation to him; he may see much of the Pride of his own heart, in rising up against God, and of his boldness, and of his enmity to God; these workings of heart does discover a dreadful fountain of Sin within.
2. That he may see much of his own heart in these murmurings. And indeed these murmurings ⟨p. 62⟩are a great occasion sometimes to bring men off from their own righteousnesses: Therefore it is good to lead him on this occasion into the sense of the wretchedness of his heart; he may see in these workings much of his own hypocrisie, he has owned many times the need he has of free mercy; and that he deserved Condemnation; yet now he murmurs as if God owed Salvation to him; he may see much of the Pride of his own heart, in rising up against God, and of his boldness, and of his enmity to God; these workings of heart does discover a dreadful fountain of Sin within.
3. That those Objections which his heart makes against God's proceeding are causeless. He may be showed particularly, that the ways of God are righteous and that men have no reason to murmur against him. It should be cleared up to him, that God has great cause to find fault with him, but he has no cause to find fault with God.
3. That those Objections which his heart makes against God's proceeding are causeless. He may be shew'd particularly, that the ways of God are righteous and that men have no reason to murmur against him. It should be cleared up to him, that God has great cause to find fault with him, but he has no cause to find fault with God.