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Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to…Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to…
Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1717
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. In giving way to sinful practices. Evil practices have been witnessed against in all Ages, yet there be those that will keep up the trade. Some are addicting themselves to ways of Intemperance, they are thirsting after Strong Drink, and inflame themselves with it. Some addict themselves to ways of Uncleanness, and polluting themselves with their Lusts. Some are practising Injustice. Some are false in their Speeches: And some are profane in their Behaviour. These Men are undoing themselves: they complain that others are enemies to them, but indeed they are their own enemies. Job 31.3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
1. In giving way to sinful practices. Evil practices have been witnessed against in all Ages, yet there be those that will keep up the trade. Some are addicting themselves to ways of Intemperance, they are thirsting after Strong Drink, and inflame themselves with it. Some addict themselves to ways of Uncleanness, and polluting themselves with their Lusts. Some are practising Injustice. Some are false in their Speeches: And some are prophane in their Behaviour. These Men are undoing themselves: they complain that others are enemies to them, but indeed they are their own enemies. Job 31.3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
(1) Sometimes in this way they lay a foundation of great Sorrow to themselves and to their Children. God sometimes quickly bears a testimony against the sinful carriages of Men: Sometimes he doth it when they think they are forgotten, and that there's no danger, then God calls their iniquity to remembrance, and brings distress upon their Bodies, or a curse upon their Estates, and multiplies their Sorrows, because they have been guilty of Rebellion; their Sins are a root of bitterness; iniquity breads calamity. Men have many awful visitations for their ungodly practices. God makes their lives uncomfortable.