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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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2. Because they live among carnal men, scattered up and down among unconverted men; and if this their Grace were perfect, they would not be fit to live together; it would be known who were godly and who ungodly, which would fill Families, Towns and Countries with Temptation: Godly Men would be p• […] it to bear the carriages of the ungodly, and ungodly men would not know how to bear the carriages of the Godly; it would fill all societies with disquietment and trouble.
2. Because they live among carnal men, scattered up and down among unconverted men; and if this their Grace were perfect, they would not be fit to live together; it would be known who were godly and who ungodly, which would fill Families, Towns and Countries with Temptation: Godly Men would be p• 〈…〉 it to bear the carriages of the ungodly, and ungodly men would not know how to bear the carriages of the Godly; it would fill all societies with disquietment and trouble.
3. Because this is suitable to those Administrations that God has appointed in his House. It is meet that all should worship God; and the worship that God has appointed is suited both for the conversion of sinners, and the building up of saints; to promote their humiliation and recovery from backslidings and relief under temptations. If godly men were perfect, they and ungodly men would not be fit to join together in confession or petition. The Ordinances that God has appointed are not not fit to be attended by men that have attained to a perfection in Grace.
3. Because this is suitable to those Administrations that God has appointed in his House. It is meet that all should worship God; and the worship that God has appointed is suited both for the conversion of sinners, and the building up of saints; to promote their humiliation and recovery from backslidings and releif under temptations. If godly men were perfect, they and ungodly men would not be fit to joyn together in confession or petition. The Ordinances that God has appointed are not not fit to be attended by men that have attained to a perfection in Grace.