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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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Of Reproof to those that despise the blood of Christ. We read of some that count the blood of the Covenant a common thing, Heb. 10.29. You may well think, that God takes it heinously, when you despise it as if there were no great virtue in it. There be some Men that are distressed for want of pardon, Death is amazing to them; but they dare not trust in the blood of Christ, as if there were little virtue in it: you heat great commendations of it, but you don't believe them: you slight it as insufficient for the Expiation of your Sins: You don't believe that God has any great esteem of it, you think if you should ⟨p. 17⟩trust in it, it would be a presumptuous thing, that would be a way to be cheated of your Soul. Though you pray that you may be sprinkled with Christs blood, and profess the saving virtue of it, yet you do despise it.
Of Reproof to those that despise the blood of Christ. We read of some that count the blood of the Covenant a common thing, Heb. 10.29. You may well think, that God takes it heinously, when you despise it as if there were no great vertue in it. There be some Men that are distressed for want of pardon, Death is amazing to them; but they dare not trust in the blood of Christ, as if there were little vertue in it: you heat great commendations of it, but you don't believe them: you slight it as insufficient for the Expiation of your Sins: You don't believe that God has any great esteem of it, you think if you should ⟨p. 17⟩trust in it, it would be a presumptuous thing, that would be a way to be cheated of your Soul. Though you pray that you may be sprinkled with Christs blood, and profess the saving vertue of it, yet you do despise it.