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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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1. They are governed by self-love in their ill Affection to God. It is said of carnal Men that they have God: Joh. 15.25. They hated me without a cause. Rom. 1.30. They are haters of God. Rom. 8.7. The natural mind is Enmity to God. Some of these Men find affections to God, yet they are enemies to him: They were alienated and enemies to God by wicked works, Col. 1.21. They are wholly destitute of love to God: Joh. 5.42. You have not the love of God in you. They could be glad there were no God. They don't like it that he sees them, that he is just, that he is able to avenge himself. And the foundation of this enmity to God is self-love. They are so addicted to their own interest as makes them to have a bitter spirit towards God.
They hate God because he crosses them in his Laws. They have a desire to serve their corruptions, but they are restrained by God: they would fain have more liberty in following their pleasures, than the Laws of God do allow them: so in pursuing the World, but God will not suffer them They dare not do what they have a mind to do, least God should be offended. Carnal Men affect a great deal of liberty, they would walk after the sight of their eyes, Eccl. 11.9. but God limits them and controls them, he tells, that they may not do this and this, and they are forced to deny themselves of many things that they desire, and they don't know how to bear it. It seems to them that God is an enemy to ⟨p. 39⟩their comfort; they think they could live an happy life, if they were not confined within such narrow bounds, and so they have an ill affection unto God as an adversary of their felicity.