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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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2. […] understand the Glory of God in the Gospel, that makes them actually turn to God and leave a disposition in the heart that way: Before it was understood they despised the Gospel. Isai. 53.2. When we shall see him, there is no beauty in him, that we should desire him. Though they be never so importunately urged they will not hearken, some objection or other will lye upon their hearts, if Men think that they cannot withstand the calls, yet they do: but as soon as they see the glory of Christ, they are encouraged to come to him: before they understand the Gospel they withstand it, and no arguments will prevail upon them; they were overcome with a spirit of fear, they were not able to master a fearful spirit; they heard so much about the sufficiency of Christ that they wished that they could come, but they were not able to conquer a spirit of fear, but were restrained by it, as it were bound hand and foot and could not stir. Joh. 6.44. No man can come unto me, except the Father that sent me draw him. And they had an enmity in their spirit unto ⟨p. 76⟩him. Joh. 5.40. Ye will not come unto me that you may have life. But when they see things as they are, immediately they come; that delivers them from their enmity to Christ, and that delivers them from their fear. When they see the glory of God in the face of Christ, they make no more resistance; when they are turned from darkness to light, they turn from Satan unto God. And this discovery leaves an abiding […] on the heart: as the Man doth ejoyce in Christ, so there is an inclination to rejoice in him for the time to come: the heart is bent that way and it stands bent that way. Joh. 5.25. The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. 2 Cor. 3.18. We all with open face, behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.
2. 〈…〉 understand the Glory of God in the Gospel, that makes them actually turn to God and leave a disposition in the heart that way: Before it was understood they despised the Gospel.