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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.
It also appears by that PROPHESY of our Saviour, where it is foretold that God will first prepare men, and then bring them to Christ, Joh. 16.8. here it is foretold what method the Spirit will take with men; he will not reveal the Righteousness of Christ to men in the first place; but in order to this, he convinces them of sin, makes them see their danger and miserable condition: first he searches their wound, and then applies the remedy: It appears also, by the particular application of the Call of the Gospel to those that are prepared: Sometimes the Call is propounded generally to all, but at other times […] propounded particularly to such as are in distress by reason of their sins; that see themselves miserable and undone. Mat. 11.28. Isa. 55.1. Rev. 22.17. the Call is applied particularly to these, as being in the next capacity to give entertainment unto it: intimating the condition that men must be in before they do receive it.
It also appears by that PROPHESY of our Saviour, where it is foretold that God will first prepars men, and then bring them to Christ, Joh. 16.8. here it is foretold what method the Spirit will take with men; he will not reveal the Righteousness of Christ to men in the first place; but in order to this, he convinces them of sin, makes them see their danger and miserable condition: first he searches their wound, and then applies the remedy: It appears also, by the particular application of the Call of the Gospel to those that are prepared: Sometimes the Call is propounded generally to all, but at other times 〈…〉 propounded particularly to such as are in distress by reason of their sins; that see themselves miserable and undone. Mat. 11.28. Isa. 55.1. Rev. 22.17. the Call is applied particularly to these, as being in the next capacity to give entertainment unto it: intimating the condition that men must be in before they do receive it.