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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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Hence learn, That where the Gospel is not known there is no Conversion. There be many People in the World that are ignorant of it. so the Heathens, and the Turks, and the generality of the Papists, accordingly they are not Converted. Knowledge is the Key that opens the door of life. Luke 11.52. Ye have taken away the key of knowledge. There is no Salvation but in the Church of God; among them that have the Oracles of God. Joh. 4.22. Salvation is of the Jews. For it is by the Gospel that Men are Converted. Jam. 1.18. He hath begotten us by the word of Truth.
Hence learn, That where the Gospel is not known there is no Conversion. There be many People in the World that are ignorant of it. so the Heathens, and the Turks, and the generality of the Papists, accordingly they are not Converted. Knowledge is the Key that opens the door of life. Luke 11.52. Ye have taken away the key of knowledge. There is no Silvation but in the Church of God; among them that have the Oracles of God. Joh. 4.22. Salvation is of the Jews. For it is by the Gospel that Men are Converted. Jam. 1.18. He hath begotten us by the word of Truth.
1. Though there be Morality. Some of the Heathens were noted for their Morality: they were just, chaste and temperate. The light of Nature teacheth Men Morality: the Law written in the heart is the Moral Law. But Morally differs very much from Conversion. Moral virtues and graces differ in, […] Moral virtues are acquired by practice, customing themselves that way, will beget an habit. But Grace is obtained by infusion. Moral virtues don't render Men acceptable to God, for thought they look like Graces, yet they are Lusts. Moral virtues do give an external honour to God, but they don't dispose Men to aim at the Glory of God.