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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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CHAP. V. This Act of Faith doth include all other Graces.
THE act of Faith in accepting Jesus Christ is the Conversion of the whole Soul unto God: for it is virtually all Grace, it includes in it somewhat of the Spirit of all other Graces: There is a distinction in the exercise of several Graces; there is a difference between the acts of Faith, and Love, and Repentance, and Humility; yet there is somewhat of the spirit of every Grace working in the Soul's first closing with Christ. As,
THE act of Faith in accepting Jesus Christ is the Conversion of the whole Soul unto God: for it is vertually all Grace, it includes in it somewhat of the Spirit of all other Graces: There is a distinction in the exercise of several Graces; there is a difference between the acts of Faith, and Love, and Repentance, and Humility; yet there is somewhat of the spirit of every Grace working in the Soul's first closing with Christ. As,
1. There is a believing of the Word of God. God speaks a great deal in the Gospel to encourage Sin is to come to Christ. He tells us, that he calls us, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he is appointed to be a Prince and a Saviour, that he died for our Sins, that he has satisfied the Justice of God, that he is risen from the dead, and sits at the right hand of God, that he will of his free Grace pardon all the Sins of those that come to him; and the man when he comes to Christ receives the whole Doctrine of the Gospel as the true sayings of God: He rejects all carnal reasons, and ••ts his sal that […] true, He made a Profession before, but now