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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. That God is now striving with him in order to his Eternal Good; God is exercising ⟨p. 18⟩a great deal of mercy, and he has no cause to conclude that God will so leave him; though God might justly do it, yet he has reason to hope in God to preserve him.
3. That it is fit he should be humbled under the sense of the depravedness of his nature, & be sensible of the insufficiency of his own Righteousness, to bring him into the Favour of God, his heart being a sink of all manner of Sin; he can never be justified but by the perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
3. That it is fit he should be humbled under the sense of the depravedness of his nature, & be senfible of the insufficiency of his own Righteousness, to bring him into the Favour of God, his heart being a sink of all manner of Sin; he can never be justified but by the perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
4. That his best way is to make haste to get into a Converted Condition. If he were once Converted, he would not be in so much danger to fall into great Transgressions; because he would have then an holy principle to resist temptations to Sin; and then he would have an Interest in the Favour of God; & it would be more hopeful that God would preserve him.