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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.
Quest Is there at that time any true meltings of heart because of S•n? Is the Soul truly grieved for its Sins against God, as some men have thought?
Quest Is there at that time any true meltings of heart because of S•n? Is the Soul truly gr•eved for its Sins against God, as some men have thought?
Answ. That though there is such a Conviction of sin as makes men to justify God, yet there is no godly sorrow for sin. Men are not at this time affected with any Godly sorrow.
Answ. That though there is such a Conviction of sin as makes men to justifie God, yet there is no godly sorrow for sin. Men are not at this time affected with any Godly sorrow.
1. Because such sorrow is inconsistent with the work of Humiliation When the Sinner is humbled, he sees himself emptied of himself, and sees his own heart dead in sin; this could not be, if he had any gracious sorrow for sin; if there were true sorrow for sin, there must be love to God, a spiritual understanding, a new heart, a divine principle put into the man; for nature cannot produce any such effect.
1. Because such sorrow is inconsistent with the work of Hum•liation When the Sinner is humbled, he sees himself emptied of himself, and sees his own heart dead in sin; this could not be, if he had any gracious sorrow for sin; if there were true sorrow for sin, there must be love to God, a spiritual understanding, a new heart, a divine principle put into the man; for nature cannot produce any such effect.