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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.
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.
2. That his way must be to wait upon God still. This is no sign God has given him over, his terrors may quickly return again, and he may find mercy for all this: When he had his good frames and affections, they could not save him, nor make his peace with God; and if God do show him his own emptiness, he may quickly after discover to him the Excellency of Christ.
2. That his way must be to wait upon God still. This is no sign God has given him over, his terrors may quickly return again, and he may find mercy for all this: When he had his good frames and affections, they could not save him, nor make his peace with God; and if God do shew him his own emptiness, he may quickly after discover to him the Excellency of Christ.