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Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered.…
Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered. An essay, to awaken people out of the lethargy which disposes them to continue in a dark uncertainty about their future state, in the world, which is not seen, but is eternal. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
printed by T Green, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
STIMULATOR. OR, The Case of a SOUL in the Dark.STIMƲLATOR. OR, The Case of a SOUL in the Dark.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as a Foundation for them, I take the Solemn Words of our SAVIOUR, which are now before us. Words, wherein our SAVIOUR Laments the Unhappy condition of them, who walk in Darkness, & know not whither they are going. Words, which give this DOCTRINE unto us, Very Unhappy, Very Unhappy, is the condition of them, who walk so much in the Dark, that they know not whither they we going; but are very much in the Dark, what shall become of them at the Last.
And as a Foundation for them, I take the Solemn Words of our SAVIOUR, which are now before us. Words, wherein our SAVIOUR Laments the Ʋnhappy condition of them, who walk in Darkness, & know not whither they are going. Words, which give this DOCTRINE unto us, Very Unhappy, Very Unhappy, is the condition of them, who walk so much in the Dark, that they know not whither they we going; but are very much in the Dark, what shall become of them at the Last.
There is a Double, But, Oh! what a Dreadful Darkness, in which the poor Children of Men, are frequently found Walking and Know not where it Leads them, or how it will Terminate.
I. There is the Darkness of a False Religion, which makes a very Unhappy Condition for Multitudes in the World; Multitudes who walk in Darkness, & Know not whither they are going. Man is, Animal Religiosum, a creature naturally disposed unto Religion; He must lay aside his Nature, if he be not of some Religion. But man has by his Fall from GOD, so Enfeebled, yea, so Corrupted & Poisoned his mind that his Understanding being darkened, a False Religion is now most agreeable unto him. Having also resigned himself up unto the Dominion of those Evil Spirits, which are by the wrath of GOD now become the Rulers of the Darkness of this World, these conspire as much as may be by their Devices to hold him in the chains of a False Religion. Tis now come to pass; Darkness covers the Earth, and Gross Darkness the People. The most of Mankind are by the Unsearchable Judgments of GOD, now so abandoned, that they are in the Unhappy Condition of the Jews, who sought unto Egypt for the Succours which were to be found from GOD alone;