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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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3. That there is no way left him now, but to yield himself into the Hands of God. If God destroy him he may, he lies at the mere mercy of God; if God will deliver him he may, if he does not he does no wrong; he can't run from God, he can't force God; if he stands it out against God, he takes a way to ruin himself the safest course he can take, is to fall into the hands of God; it may be God may help him, however he can but perish.
3. That there is no way left him now, but to yield himself into the Hands of God. If God destroy him he may, he lies at the meer mercy of God; if God will deliver him he may, if he does not he does no wrong; he can't run from God, he can't force God; if he stands it out against God, he takes a way to ruin himself• the safest course he can take, is to fall into the hands of God; it may be God may help him, however he can but perish.
SOMETIMES a little before the work of God is completed in him, he complains that he seems to be as before he was under Convictions, careless & senseless; his terrors have left him, and he is not affected with his condition. In this Case he may be told,
SOMETINES a little before the work of God is compleated in him, he complains that he seems to be as before he was under Convictions, careless & senseless; his terrours have left him, and he is not affected with his condition. In this Case he may be told,
1. That now he may see what an heart he has, and how insufficient he is to deliver himself. His heart is empty of all that is good, and there is no possibility of his attaining Salvation by his own power, he has no principle of Grace, and never had; the frames that formerly he had, were nothing else but the workings of self-love and natural Conscience; and unless God does deliver him, he will never attain unto life.