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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. If there be great probability that you live in a way of faith, and love, and repentance […] •on't make it evident. There is so• […] of some mens faith, because […] ••ve been a comfort to them; […] •••ause they are zealous […] •ances, and in praising […], for their sins are a ⟨p. 141⟩great burden to them, and they are careful to avoid sin: but probabilities prove nothing; that may be probable, that may be false▪ there may be some probability of a thing, yet the contrary may be certain. Probabilities leave men under uncertainties. If they raise hopes, yet they leave room for fears. There may be probabilities one way, and as great probabilities the other way. Men wont content themselves with a probable title to their land. God will not take men to heaven because there is a probability of their goodness. Twenty Probabilities make the thing more probable, but they don't make it certain. Probabilities are no Demonstrations. The hopes that are built on them may be disappointed, therefore we are directed to make our Calling and Election sure. 2 Pet. 1.10.
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