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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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Common Illumination is of two sorts; one is from the more common improvements of natural reason, the other from more affecting discoveries wrought by a common work of the Spirit of God. There is a conviction that riseth from the common improvement of natural reason. Thus men see clearly the Protestant religion is better than the Popish: That it must needs be a work of wonderful wisdom and power to make the world, that the sacrifice of the Son of God must needs be of great value, that it was great love for God to give his Son to die: And hundreds of things of the like nature.
Common Illumination is of two sorts; one is from the more common improvements of natural reason, the other from more affecting discoveries wrought by a common work of the Spirit of God. There is a conviction that riseth from the common improvement of natu••l reason. Thus men see clearly the Protestant religion is better than the Popish: That it must needs be a work of wonderful wisdom and power to make the world, that the sacrifice of the Son of God must needs be of great value, that it was great love for God to give his Son to die: And hundreds of things of the like nature.
Besides these rational convictions there are affecting discoveries of divine truths by the common work of the Spirit which make for a time a considerable impression on the heart. Luk. 14.15. When one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God; Mat. 13.20. He that receive• the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it. 2 Pet. 2.20. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowled•• of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they a entangled therein and overcome: