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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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1. When you reform, he has no occasion to say, that you part with your beloved Sins for his sake. Some of them do forsake their bad courses, pull out their right Eyes, and cast them away; they wont do any thing that is unjust; leave off their Intemperance: shun profane Practices: Men take notice of it and are glad to see it; but there is no occasion for God to take notice of it as any love to him. No, God says, the Man is frighted into Reformation: He don't know how to bear the flames of Hell; he would be as bad as the worst, but that he dare not. Job 41.25. By reason of breakings they purify themselves.
2. When you confess your Sins, there is no occasion to say that you Mourn for his sake. Formerly the Man made light of Sin, but it is otherwise now; he laments his Sins and sometimes sheds Tears, as Saul, 1 Sam. 24.16. But God has no occasion to say, Behold how he loves me! He could dispense with my dishonour casily; but he has wounded his Conscience, his wounds smart, he has exposed himself to misery, his cries are the cries of Nature; he foresees Misery like to come upon him, and so be howls.
2. When you confess your Sins, there is no occasion to say that you Mourn for his sake. Formerly the Man made light of Sin, but it is otherwise now; he laments his Sins and sometimes sheds Tears, as Saul, 1 Sam. 24.16. But God has no occasion to say, Behold how he loves me! He could dispense with my dishonour casily; but he has wounded his Conscience, his wounds smart, he has exposed himself to misery, his cryes are the cryes of Nature; he foresees Misery like to come upon him, and so be howls.