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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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These two sorts of illumination, are resemblances of a twofold spiritual Illumination that saints have. One is by sanctified reason, whereby men are convinced of divine truths. Men understand the divine authority of th• Scripture, and thereby they are assured of […] truth of Promises and Threatenings: They are assured that God made the world, and from thence they are convinced of his eternal Power and Godhead: They know that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, and thereby they know the saving virtue of his Blood.
These two sorts of illumination, are resemblances of a twofold spiritual Illmmination that saints have. One is by sanctified reason, whereby men are convinced of divine truths. Men understand the divine authority of th• Scripture, and thereby they are assured of 〈…〉 truth of Promises and Threatnings: They are assured that God made the world, and from thence they are convinced of his eternal Power and Godhead: They know that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, and thereby they know the saving vertue of his Blood.
The other is by special discoveries of divine truths. They are led into Christ's chambers, as the 'phrase is, Cant. 1.4. God breaks into the heart by divine light, and gives great discoveries of his faithfulness, of his holiness, his grace, the delight he takes in the sacrifice of Christ, and many other things. 2 Cor. 4.6. God hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. Both these ways of conviction seem to be intimated, Eph. 1.17. That God may give unto you, the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.