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The nature of saving conversion, and the way
The nature of saving conversion, and the way wherein it is wrought. By the Rev'd. learned, and eminently pious, Mr. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, New-England, first published A.D. 1719.
Boston: : Printed for and sold by Edmund Sawyer, at his house in Newbury., 1770
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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 ⟨p. 65⟩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 received 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 knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are entangled therein and overcome: Heb. 1.4, 5.6 For it is impossible for them that were one enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and hath tasted the good word of God and the powers 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 ⟨p. 65⟩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 received 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 knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are intangled therein and overcome: Heb. 1.4, 5.6