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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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Here you may observe,
1. If you do not know that you live in sin, that can be no evidence of your godliness: As you cannot condemn your […], so you cannot justify your selves, Some persons examine themselves […] they live in any known sin; and […] •est enquiry they do not find […] do not find that they […] •f any duty, or in the […]. Their hearts do no• […] •hey ⟨p. 140⟩duly attend prayer, they are careful to sanctify the Sabbath, they live soberly, chastely, justly, they are true to their word, and faithful in their places, they don't know upon the most narrow search that they live in any way of sin, yet they cannot justify themselves from hence; 1 Cor. 4.4. I know nothing by my self yet am I not hereby justified: For men that examine themselves may be ignorant that they live in away of sin, yet they may live in a way of sin; men's understandings are corrupted, and they may live in pride, worldliness and unbelief, and not know it: They may think those corruptions don't reign when indeed they do reign. Many men that don't know that they live in sin, are fain to suspend their judgment about themselves; they hope from hence that they are holy, but don't know it. Though men don't know that they live in sin, yet God may know that they do: Prov. 30.12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed from their filthiness.
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