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A treatise concerning conversion: showing the nature of saving conversion to God, and the…A treatise concerning conversion: shewing the nature of saving conversion to God, and the…
A treatise concerning conversion: showing the nature of saving conversion to God, and the way wherein it is wrought; together with an exhortation to labour after it. : To which is added, a lecture-sermon had at Boston, July 2. 1719. Wherein the way to know sincerity and hypocrisy is cleared up. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.A treatise concerning conversion: shewing the nature of saving conversion to God, and the way wherein it is wrought; together with an exhortation to labour after it. : To which is added, a lecture-sermon had at Boston, July 2. 1719. Wherein the way to know sincerity and hypocrisy is cleared up. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.
Boston: printed by J.F. i.e for D. Henchman, 1719
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I shall only add that consideration, that God makes many comfortable Promises to them that have grace; Rom. 2.7. 1 Jam. 12. Isai. 3.10. But if men could not know that they have grace, that would frustrate the design of these promises; that would take away the foundation of their comfort; they would be uncapable of making application of the promises to themselves. How much happiness soever is made over to them in those promises; yet if they could not know their own grace, they must be strangers to their own happiness, and not rejoice in the good that is made over to them.
I shall only add that consideration, that God makes many comfortable Promises to them that have grace; Rom. 2.7. 1 Jam. 12. Isai. 3.10. But if men could not know that they have grace, that would frustrate the design of these promises; that would take away the foundation of their comfort; they would be uncapable of making application of the promises to themselves. How much happiness soever is made over to them in those promises; yet if they could not know their own grace, they must be strangers to their own happiness, and not rejoyce in the good that is made over to them.
Quest. How may a godly man know that he has Grace?
Answ. 1. He cannot know it in a way of Arguing. We come to the knowledge of many things in a way of reasoning; arguing from things known, to things that are not known. ⟨p. 81⟩