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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.
There be TWO particular CASES that do require a particular Consideration.
The First CASE is, When the Minister is sent for by a man upon his Sick-bed. The first thing to be done is to get an understanding in what condition the person is. For though a man that does not know his Case may speak several things that may be safe and profitable: whatever his Condition is; yet the more knowledge there is of the state of the man, the more advantage he is under to speak pertinently.
The Frst CASE is, When the Minister is sent for by a man upon his Sick-bed. The first thing to be done is to get an understanding in what condition the person is. For though a man that does not know his Case may speak several things that may be safe and profitable: whatever his Condition is; yet the more knowledge there is of the state of the man, the more advantage he is under to speak pertinently.
I. If it be plain that the man is in a Natural Condition, it is most proper to insist upon these three things:
I. If it be plain that the man is in a Natoral Condition, it is most proper to insist upon these three things: