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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.
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3. That such Scriptures as seem to evidence th• their day is past, do not determine any such thing it is said, Prov. 29.1. that he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be ⟨p. 17⟩destroyed. But it is evident, that God waits longer upon some persons than upon others: Some Threatenings are universal, and some are indefinite: showing what God does many times do; so it is said, Heb. 10.28. If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him; but the Backsliding here spoken of seems to be the Unpardonable Sin; he had been speaking of that, ver. 26. and seems here to have reference to the same sin; for in other cases God does speak encouragingly in his Word unto Backsliders, Jer. 3.22. Hos. 14.4.
3. That such Scriptures as seem to evidence th• their day is past, do not determine any such thing it is said, Prov. 29.1. that he that being often reproved, hardneth his neck, shall suddenly be ⟨p. 17⟩destroyed. But it is evident, that God waits longer upon some persons than upon others: Some Threatnings are universal, and some are indefinite: shewing what God does many times do; so it is said, Heb. 10.28. If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him; but the Backsliding here spoken of seems to be the Unpardonable Sin; he had been speaking of that, ver. 26. and seems here to have reference to the same sin; for in other cases God does speak incouragingly in his Word unto Backsliders, Jer. 3.22.