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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. Some neglect the Worship of God. They come universally to hear the word of God upon the Sabbath, and generally at other times: how they do attend the secret duties of Religion, God & their own Consciences do know, there is reason enough to suspect many of them; but there be scarce five or six of them in a Town, that do attend the Lords Supper. The Lords Supper is a Memorial of the death of Christ, therein we show forth the Lords death, 1 Cor. 11.26. Do these Men praise the Name of the Lord, when they turn their backs on this Ordinance, and refuse to celebrate this Memorial of Christs Passion, and to give a testimony to the truth of the Gospel? The Lords Supper is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace: God therein sets his Seal to the saving virtue of the blood of Christ: and do they ⟨p. 108⟩praise the Name of the Lord, when they refuse to receive the Seal of the Covenant? God in this Ordinance makes an offer of Christ as slain for our Redemption; and do they praise the Name of the Lord that refuse to attend it? The coming to this Ordinance is an open acknowledgement of the truth of the Gospel; what is the neglecting of it then but an open denial of the truth of the Gospel? Some it may be do neglect it from tenderness of Conscience, fearing whether they have liberty to come; but many others do neglect it from a careless & irreligious spirit, they neither come to it, nor are careful to prepare themselves for it.
4. Some neglect the Worship of God. They come universally to hear the word of God upon the Sabbath, and generally at other times: how they do attend the secret duties of Religion, God & their own Consciences do know, there is reason enough to suspect many of them; but there be scarce five or six of them in a Town, that do attend the Lords Supper. The Lords Supper is a Memorial of the death of Christ, therein we shew forth the Lords death, 1 Cor. 11.26. Do these Men praise the Name of the Lord, when they turn their backs on this Ordinance, and refuse to celebrate this Memorial of Christs Passion, and to give a testimony to the truth of the Gospel? The Lords Supper is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace: God therein sets his Seal to the saving vertue of the blood of Christ: and do they ⟨p. 108⟩