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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.
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.
If People will do, what they may do, they might soon get out of this Unhappy Condition; They should no longer Walk in Darkness, & not know whither they are going; But GOD would so help them, that Good Terms with Heaven would be Settled & Certain with them. It is a very black Indictment, which is laid ⟨p. 39⟩against some that remain much in the Dark, how it shall go with them, 2 Pet. III. 5. They are willingly Ignorant. But for this Grand Point, How we shall fare in the Day of the Lord, which will come as a Thief in the Night, for People to be willingly Ignorant! Surely, tis to be very culpably Ignorant. But if People might come out of their Ignorance by doing but what they ought to do, & they will through' their own Sluggishness continue in it, are they not willingly Ignorant? O Sluggish Souls, how can you be Excused, in this Criminal Ignorance, this Affected Ignorance: But what is it, that we may do, to get out of it? O Souls Bound for Eternity: Know you not that there are some Good Things, which are styled, Phil. I 28. The Evident Tokens of Salvation? Come now, commune with your own Hearts, and let your Spirits make a diligent Search in your selves, whether you have ever yet had any Experience of those things. If the matter appear Doubtful to you, put it out of Doubt, by such Acts of PIETY, as must be done by all that shall be Saved, & can be done by none but those that shall be Saved. When you see such Tokens for Good upon you, then you may be Sure of GOD saying to you, I will Surely do thee Good. Now Do these things; Do them till you see them; Do them till you Feel that you have done them.
If People will do, what they may do, they might soon get out of this Ʋnhappy Condition; They should no longer Walk in Darkness, & not know whither they are going; But GOD would so help them, that Good Terms with Heaven would be Setled & Certain with them. It is a very black Indictment, which is laid ⟨p. 39⟩against some that remain much in the Dark, how it shall go with them, 2 Pet. III. 5. They are willingly Ignorant. But for this Grand Point, How we shall fare in the Day of the Lord, which will come as a Thief in the Night, for People to be willingly Ignorant! Surely, tis to be very culpably Ignorant. But if People might come out of their Ignorance by doing but what they ought to do, & they will thro' their own Sluggishness continue in it, are they not willingly Ignorant? O Sluggish Souls, how can you be Excused, in this Criminal Ignorance, this Affected Ignorance: But what is it, that we may do, to get out of it? O Souls Bound for Eternity: Know you not that there are some Good Things, which are stiled, Phil. I 28. The Evident Tokens of Salvation? Come now, commune with your own Hearts, and let your Spirits make a diligent Search in your selves, whether you have ever yet had any Experience of those things. If the matter appear Doubtful to you, put it out of Doubt, by such Acts of PIETY, as must be done by all that shall be Saved, & can be done by none but those that shall be Saved. When you see such Tokens for Good upon you, then you may be Sure of GOD saying to you, I will Surely do thee Good. Now Do these things; Do them till you see them; Do them till you Feel that you have done them.