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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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1. Because saving Grace acts From other Motives and for another End than common Grace doth. The difference in motives and end, makes a spiritual difference in actions: If men do not act from gracious motives and for gracious ends, they do not the thing that God commands; there is no obedience to God in what they do; they don't attend the will of God: When men depend on Christ to save them, from the encouragement of their own goodness, and merely that they may be delivered from Hell, they act quite after another manner than the man doth that depends on Christ only from the encouragement of his ⟨p. 8⟩Excellency, and that he may be delivered from Sin as well as from Damnation: When a man mourns for Sin because it exposes him to contempt among men, or wrath from God, or because of the moral evil of it, he doth quite another thing from that man, who mourns for it because it is a wrong to a God of infinite Glory: If his Sorrow were in the highest degree that his nature is capable of, it would not be gracious.
1. Because saving Grace acts From other Motives and for another End than common Grace doth. The difference in motives and end, makes a spiritual difference in actions: If men do not act from gracious motives and for gracious ends, they do not the thing that God commands; there is no obedience to God in what they do; they don't attend the will of God: When men depend on Christ to save them, from the incouragement of their own goodness, and meerly that they may be delivered from Hell, they act quite after another manner than the man doth that depends on Christ only from the encouragement of his ⟨p. 8⟩Excellency, and that he may be delivered from Sin as well as from Damnation: When a man mourns for Sin because it exposes him to contempt among men, or wrath from God, or because of the moral evil of it, he doth quite another thing from that man, who mourns for it because it is a wrong to a God of infinite Glory: If his Sorrow were in the highest degree that his nature is capable of, it would not be gracious.