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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. To Reform his Life, and not to indulge himself in any sins of Omission or Commission: in any external sins, nor in sinful thoughts or desires; neither in sinful actions, nor in doing good actions in a sinful manner: Men that are seeking Salvation, must not allow themselves to go on in a way of Damnation: that terror is not sufficient that will suffer men to live an unreformed Life: if men be thoroughly •red, they will dread doing what wounds then Consciences; fear of Hell will make men afraid of sin: if they be thoroughly wounded, those temptations that formerly carried them […] will be overcome, Luke 13.10, 12, 14.
2. To Reform his Life, and not to indulge himself in any sins of Omission or Commission: in any external sins, nor in sinful thoughts or desires; neither in sinful actions, nor in doing good actions in a sinful manner: Men that are seeking Salvation, must not allow themselves to go on in a way of Damnation: that terror is not sufficient that will suffer men to live an unreformed Life: if men be thoroughly •red, they will dread doing what wounds then Consciences; fear of Hell will make men afraid of sin: if they be thoroughly wounded, those temptations that formerly carried them 〈…〉 will be overcome, Luke 13.10, 12, 14.
3. To lay himself open to the Convictions […] the […]. Sometimes men are desirous to be con•ed and terrified, but not so much, they would over-rule their Convictions is to time and degree; but as a Patient leaves himself in the hand of the Chirurgeon, so should they in the hand of the Spirit, when it […] him, and as much as it pleases him, not […] eyes against the light,