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The duty of Gospel-ministers to preserve a people from corruption. Set forth, in a…
The duty of Gospel-ministers to preserve a people from corruption. Set forth, in a sermon preached at Brookfield, October 16. 1717. Being the day wherein the church was gathered, and Mr. Thomas Cheney, was ordained Pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. and Pastor of Northampton.
Boston: printed for Samuel Phillips, 1718
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Duty of GOSPEL-MINISTERS to preserve a People from Corruption. › DOCTRINE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(2.) BY Errors. Men have a great deal of carnal reason, and so are in danger to grow erroneous. There be a great many temptations from without to errors, there be many false Doctrines published in the World. Men have mightily corrupted the Doctrine of the Christian Religion: there have been heretical teachers that have broached dangerous errors. 2 Pet. 4.1. There shall be false teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies. And Satan is busy to blind the minds of Men. 2 Cor. 4.4. The God of this world has blinded their minds. And there be many temptations in Mens own hearts to seduce them: carnal men don't love Evangelical truths; and the pride of their hearts exposes them; they are unwilling to acknowledge such truths as they cannot comprehend. ⟨p. 7⟩The lusts of Mens hearts do incline them to receive heretical Doctrines. 2 Tim. 3.6. They lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. Many errors have mightily prevailed in the World. The smoke that has come out of the bottomless pit has darkened the air, Rev. 9.2. Arianism did so for a while, and Pelagianism, and Popery, and Arminianism: many Countries are corrupted.
(2.) BY Errors. Men have a great deal of carnal reason, and so are in danger to grow erroneous. There be a great many temptations from without to errors, there be many false Doctrines published in the World. Men have mightily corrupted the Doctrine of the Christian Religion: there have been heretical teachers that have broached dangerous errors. 2 Pet. 4.1. There shall be false teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies. And Satan is busy to blind the minds of Men. 2 Cor. 4.4. The God of this world has blinded their minds. And there be many temptations in Mens own hearts to seduce them: carnal men don't love Evangelical truths; and the pride of their hearts exposes them; they are unwilling to acknowlege such truths as they cannot comprehend. ⟨p. 7⟩