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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.
2. That some men do justify God from a partial conviction of the righteousness of their Condemnation. Conscience takes notice of their ⟨p. 84⟩sinfulness, and tells them that they may righteously be damned; as Pharaoh, who justified God, Exod. 9.27. And they give some kind of consent to it, but many times it don't continue; they have only a p•ng upon them, that usually dies away after a little time: this justifying of God differs much from that which does immediately go before Conversion, which is a fixed and through Conviction, arising from a thorough understanding of their own hearts.
2. That some men do justifie God from a partial conviction of the righteousness of their Condemnation. Conscience takes notice of their ⟨p. 84⟩sinfulness, and tells them that they may righteously be damned; as Pharaoh, who justified God, Exod. 9.27. And they give some kind of consent to it, but many times it don't continue; they have only a p•ng upon them, that usually dies away after a little time: this justifying of God differs much from that which does immediately go before Conversion, which is a fixed and thorow Conviction, arising from a thorow understanding of their own hearts.
SOMETIMES the man seems to be upon the very borders of despair. For some men are nearer to it a great deal than others, he is in anguish of spirit, and does almost conclude, that there is no mercy for him. In this Case he may be told,