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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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USE I. Is of awakening to those that live in a course of sin. Some make pretences to godliness, whereby they do not only deceive others, but which is a […], they deceive themselves also […] will condemn them, that they […] •se of sin; & such must go with un•• […] Psal. 125.5. ⟨p. 130⟩As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. If there be a great change in a man's Carriage, and he be reformed in several particulars, yet if there be one evil way, the man is an ungodly man. If he doth choice service for the church of God, yet he is an ungodly man. If there are twenty hopeful things that may be alleged for him, yet he will not pass for a godly man. Where there is piety, there is universal obedience. A man may have great infirmities, yet be a godly man; so it was with Lot and David and Peter; but if he lives in away of sin, he don't render his godliness only suspicious, but it is full evidence against him. Men that are godly, have a respect to all God's commandments, Psal. 119.1. There be a great many commands, & if there be one of them that a man has not a respect unto, he will be put to shame another day. If a man lives in one evil way, he is not subject to God's authority; but then he lives in rebellion, and that will take off all his pleas, and at once cut off all his pretences, and he will be condemned in the day of Judgment; Luk. 13.27. Depart from me, all ye that work iniquity. One way of sin is exception enough against the man's salvation▪
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