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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. There is Love to God and Christ. When the Soul marries to Christ, he doth it with a spirit of Love; He takes God as his Portion, he takes his satisfaction in God; he comes to God not for some Conveniency but for Blessedness, he takes him as one that is sufficient to make him happy; he despises all the world in comparison of God: He takes a complacency in God, and sees the gloriousness and amiableness of God: The love of God appearing in the Gospel draws his heart. He loves to depend on Jesus Christ, and to put honour upon him. This way of Salvation pleases him, he looks upon Christ excellent and glorious, he extols Christ: Cant. 5.11. My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of ten thousands. and v. 16. He is altogether lovely. His coming to Christ is not a forced thing; but he esteems him fairer than the children of men, Psal. 45 2.
2. There is Love to God and Christ. When the Soul marries to Christ, he doth it with a spirit of Love; He takes God as his Portion, he takes his satisfaction in God; he comes to God not for some Conveniency but for Blessedness, he takes him as one that is sufficient to make him happy; he despises all the world in comparison of God: He takes a complacency in God, and sees the gloriousness and amiableness of God: The love of God appearing in the Gospel draws his heart. He loves to depend on Jesus Christ, and to put honour upon him. This way of Salvation pleases him, he looks upon Christ excellent and glorious, he extols Christ: Cant. 5.11. My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of ten thousands. and v. 16. He is altogether litely. His coming to Christ is not a forced thing; but he esteems him fairer than the children of men, Psal. 45 2.
3. There is a Spirit of Repentance. He has stood out a long while against the Calls of God, but now he repents, he changes his mind;