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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
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(4) Sometimes God gives them up to hardness of heart. God takes occasion from the wickedness of Men, to leave them to an obdurate Spirit. Spiritual Judgments are the most terrible Judgments, and the less sorrowful their hearts are, the more sorrowful their condition is; by living in Impenitency, they grieve away the Spirit of God. Formerly they thought it was but repenting and their danger would be over; but sometimes God gives them up to a seared Conscience: Rom. 11, 8. God hath given them the spirit of slumber. Their lives are lengthened out, and they continue under the Means of Grace, but nothing works upon them; Younger Persons are Converted, and the Spirit of God is stirring in the Place, but they are like the barren heath. Their Hearts are made far and Ordinances are blasted to them. Those rebukes and warnings that sink into other Men, take no impression on them, the arrows of the word fly over their heads, and the Gospel is a favour of death unto death unto them.
(4) Sometimes God gives them up to hardness of heart. God takes occasion from the wickedness of Men, to leave them to an obdurate Spirit. Spiritual Judgments are the most terrible Judgments, and the less sorrowful their hearts are, the more sorrowful their condition is; by living in Impenitency, they grieve away the Spirit of God. Formerly they thought it was but repenting and their danger would be over; but sometimes God gives them up to a seared Conscience: Rom. 11, 8. God hath given them the spirit of stumber. Their lives are longthned out, and they continue under the Means of Grace, but nothing works upon them; Younger Persons are Converted, and the Spirit of God is stirring in the Place, but they are like the barren heath. Their Hearts are made far and Ordinances are blasted to them. Those rebukes and warnings that sink into other Men, take no impression on them, the arrows of the word fly over their heads, and the Gospel is a favour of death unto death unto them.