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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.
Particularly, 1. He must see himself under the reigning power of Sin. If men imagine that they have no great disposition to sin• •or that their corruption are in any […] •ortify'd, they will commend themselves to God upon that account; and wont see it […] •ir for God to condemn them. […] absolute necessity they should have the particular consideration of ⟨p. 81⟩every corruption that is in their hearts; but they must see that they are under the dominion of sin, that a spirit of self-love reigns in them, and that their heart is contrary to that which is good; they find such workings of pride, discontentment and enmity to Christ, as shows to them they have abominable hearts; that their hearts are like the hearts of Devils, as full of sin as a toad is of poison, Rom. 7.9.
Particularly, 1. He must see himself under the reigning power of Sin. If men imagine that they have no great disposition to sin• •or that their corruption are in any 〈…〉 •ortify'd, they will commend themselves to God upon that account; and wont see it 〈…〉 •ir for God to condemn them. 〈…〉 absolute necessity they should have the particular consideration of ⟨p. 81⟩every corruption that is in their hearts; but they must see that they are under the dominion of sin, that a spirit of self-love reigns in them, and that their heart is contrary to that which is good; they find such workings of pride, discontentment and enmity to Christ, as shews to them they have abominable hearts; that their hearts are like the hearts of Devils, as full of sin as a toad is of poyson,