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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.
Another TEMPTATION is, That he has committed the UNPARDONABLE SIN; that he has committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost, that Sin which is unto Death, he has carried badly after Illuminations, and it sinks into him, that now there is no remedy.
In this Case he may be told, That it has been a frequent thing for men to fear that they have committed this Sin, who have afterward been Converted; that it is not the manner of those that have committed that Sin, to be perplexed and exercised with fears about it; but the principal way to help in this Case, is to inform him from the Word of God, what this Sin is; particularly he may be informed,
1. That it is an External Sin, not a Sin that is committed in the heart; men have some wicked thoughts after enlightenings, and then fear that they have been guilty of that sin; but that is an outward sin, it is a sin that other men may see, 1 Joh. 5.16.
1. That it is an External Sin, not a Sin that is committed in the heart; men have some wicked thoughts after enlightnings, and then fear that they have been guilty of that sin; but that is an outward sin, it is a sin that other men may see, 1 Joh. 5.16.