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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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Consider,
1. Saints may certainly see particular acts of Grace. Though there be many acts of grace that a man doth not know to be such, yet some acts of grace are plain to be seen. We find Christ enquiring of one whether he did believe, Joh. 9.35. Dost thou believe on the Son of God? and of another whether he loved him, Joh. 21.16. Simon son of J•••as, • vest thou me? That shows that such things may be known, else to what purpose would it be to ask those questions. And reason shows that they may be seen, for they do greatly differ from all counterfeit acts, and sometimes grace acts very strongly and apparently. And we have an account in Scripture of saints that have spoken very confidently about the workings of a spirit of grace; so Job, Job 42.5, 6. Now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor my self in dust and ashes. He saw the mighty workings of a spirit of repentance, and was at no loss about it. So David, Psal. 116.1. I love the Lord. He speaks of it as of a thing he was assured of. The like workings of heart he found towards the law, Psal. 119.97. O how love I thy law. So, Peter appeals to Christ, who knew his heart, Joh. 21.17. Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. And others have had the […].
1. Saints may certainly see particular acts of Grace. Though there be many acts of grace that a man doth not know to be such, yet some acts of grace are plain to be seen. We find Christ enquiring of one whether he did believe,