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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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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 s•a•l that […] true, He made a Profession before, but now ⟨p. 20⟩he don't stagger at the promise of God through unbelief; he is satisfied that the Gospel is no cunningly devised fable, but the very Word of God; 1 Thes. 2.13, Ye received the word not as the word of man, but as it is in truth the word of God, which effectually worketh in you that believe: They don't look upon it as probable as they did before, but have the assurance of the truth of it.
1. There is a believing of the Word of God. God speaks a great deal in the Gospel to encourage Sinn 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 satisfyed 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 s•a•l that 〈…〉 true, He made a Profession before, but now ⟨p. 20⟩he don't stagger at the promise of God through unbelief; he is satisfyed that the Gospel is no cunningly devised fable, but the very Word of God;