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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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This is further evident from these two things.
1. If Men know God they will be holy. Where God is truly known, he will be loved and served uprightly. Psal. 36.10. Stretch out thy loving kindness to them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Psal. 91.14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my Name. The Nature of Man is such, that the Will always follows the last dictates of the Understanding; the Will it self is a blind facility, and it follows the direction of the Understanding. When ⟨p. 72⟩once Men have a Spiritual Sight of the glory of God, they can do no other but serve him. Light and Life go together. Before Men know God it is impossible that they should love him, for they are strangers to the reason and foundation of love: if they have never so many arguments set before them, to persuade yet they cannot do it, if they strive very much with their own hearts to love God, from a fear that they shall be damned if they do not, yet they cannot do it. But when their eyes are opened and they see the glory of God, they would act against their Nature if they did it not. The excellency of the object is the foundation of the duty, and when that reason is seen, they are under a necessity to do it. Because Man is capable to know God, therefore he is capable to love and serve him: and when he doth know God he is under a necessity to serve him.
1. If Men know God they will be holy. Where God is truly known, he will be loved and served uprightly. Psal. 36.10. Stretch out thy loving kindness to them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Psal. 91.14