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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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Sometimes they do it for their Reputation. Vicious carriages are shameful; if they be known they are a disgrace to them. Gen 38.23 Let her take it to her self least we be shamed. Such carriages are matter of reproach, thereby they make themselves of the number of the fools in Israel; they are despised and render themselves ignominious; their Relations are ashamed of them: it is a disgrace to be familiar with them. This consideration is the great thing that influences many Men: they ⟨p. 44⟩can't endure to be objects of contempt and scorn; they think of that Scripture, Prov. 6.33. A wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away. They hate to be a by-word. This makes them to withstand temptation, they are content to deny themselves of their pleasures that they might keep a good Name.
Sometimes they carry morally for their profit. Many corrupt carriages are of impoverishing Nature; so is Idleness. Prov. 6.10, 11. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. So is Wantonness, Prov. 5.10. Least strangers be filled with thy wealth. So is Intemperance, Prov. 23.21. The Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty. Men that are given to that, lavish away their Estates. And Men abstain from Vice, because they can't endure to be brought to straits and necessities, they are backward to such ways as will draw them into Expenses; it seems to them a foolish thing to waste what they have, they should bring themselves to Poverty, they can hardly afford to spend for necessity, much less for superfluity. They conform to many Moral Rules from principles of good Husbandry.