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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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7. If you will not Praise the Name of the Lord upon Earth, you shall not do it in Heaven. Praising God is heavenly work; Saints & Angels will spend an Eternity in Praising & Magnifying God; they will be making Melody to the Lord; and you think they will be very happy, according to that, Psal. 84.4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be still praising thee. But if you neglect to praise God here, God will not admit you among the holy ones there, that are praising him. There will be a glorious company in Heaven, & ⟨p. 116⟩you would fain be one among the rest; you will beg to be admitted, you have desires that way now, you have your pangs wherein you long to go to Heaven. Numb. 23.10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his. And when you are going out of the World, you will cry earnestly to God to admit you, and will fill your Mouths with arguments; but you will be rejected God will have no compassion on you, but will harden his heart against you. He will remember what a life you led here, how you neglected to glorify him, how you did not own his Authority, you did not render to him the glory of his Faithfulness; how you preferred other things before him: And he will stop his ears against your cries. He wont object against you that you were poor & low in the World, or the unholiness of your Parentage, but his objection will be, that you did not honour him. For he says, They that honour me, I will honour, 1 Sam. 2.30. And he will not admit you. Math. 25.11, 12. The foolish Virgins said, Lord, Lord open to us, but he answered & said, Verily, I say unto you, I know you not.
7. If you will not Praise the Name of the Lord upon Earth, you shall not do it in Heaven. Praising God is heavenly work; Saints & Angels will spend an Eternity in Praising & Magnifying God; they will be making Melody to the Lord; and you think they will be very happy, according to that, Psal. 84.4