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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. That though he has lost his power to obey, yet God has not lost his power to Command. If he has lost his strength, yet God has not lost his Authority: If a Servant make himself drunk, and be not able to do his Masters Business, that is no excuse. God gave man power at first, and his prodigality don't deliver him from Gods Authority.
2. That in this way God is pleased many times to work Faith. Men are able to do many things in order to believing, and hereby they are put upon it to prepare for that; and in that way many have faith wrought in them. There have multitudes by the Blessing of God on the Preaching of the Gospel been brought to embrace Jesus Christ.
2. That in this way God is pleased many times to work Faith. Men are able to do many things in order to beliveing, and hereby they are put upon it to prepare for that; and in that way many have faith wrought in them. There have multitudes by the Blessing of God on the Preaching of the Gospel been brought to embrace Jesus Christ.
SOMETIMES the man says, he is afraid to do any thing in Religion; for whatever he does he is ready to trust to it: if he Prays, Fasts, ⟨p. 69⟩Reads, especially when he does those things with any affection; so he trusts in his Conscientiousness. In this Case he may be told,
SOMETIMES the man says, he is afraid to do any thing in Religion; for whatever he does he is ready to trust to it: if he Prays, Fasts, ⟨p. 69⟩Reads, especially when he does those things with any affection; so he trusts in his Conscienciousness. In this Case he may be told,