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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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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: Heb. 1.4, 5, 6 For it is impossible for them that were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers ⟨p. 71⟩of the world to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance.
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 escap•d the pollutions of the world through the knowled•• of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they a intangled therein and overcome: