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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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Sermon 2: SERMON, II. That Natural Men are under the Government of Self-Love.
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SERMON, II. That Natural Men are under the Government of Self-Love.
II. TIMOTHY, III.2. former part. For Men shall be lovers of their own selves: —
THESE words with those that follow, are an evidence of what he had predicted in the first verse, viz. That in the last days perilous times should come. By the last days we are to understand the last days of the Jewish Church. So James 5.3. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Acts 2.17. It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh. Those last days shall be perilous times, times of great danger; this be proves from the wickedness that shall abound among the Jews, and he first mentions that which is the root of all ⟨p. 35⟩the rest, Men shall be lovers of themselves: there is a lawful self-love, an holy self-love, and a sinful self-love. This is that he speaks of, Men shall love themselves, without due regard either to God or their Neighbour.
THESE words with those that follow, are an evidence of what he had predicted in the first verse, viz. That in the last days perillous times should come. By the last days we are to understand the last days of the Jewish Church. So