B10086:12
The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ
The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ: opened and applied. By Solomon Stoddard ...
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
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It is in pursuance of this design, that this small Treatise is published, (not that my care is confined to your selves, I owe a regard to the prosperity of other places:) the scope of this Discourse is to clear up the way of Salvation by Christ; I meddle not with those false Doctrines that have been invented by men, in opposition to this truth: the Lord hath been pleased to keep these Churches sound in the Faith, and does not yet lay a necessity upon his Ministers here to spend their time in the confutation of such erroneous Opinions: but I have made it my work to establish your hearts in this Truth, to satisfy your Consciences from the Scripture in the safety of your reliance upon Christ, vindicating the same from those secret workings of unbelief that are wont to ⟨image 4⟩rise up in the hearts of men, that you and others may grow up unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, and the acknowledgement of the mysteries of God, even of the Father, and of Christ: That you may be armed against those temptations wherewith your Faith is wont to be assaulted; and learn to live in all conditions upon the righteousness of Christ.
It is in pursuance of this design, that this small Treatise is published, (not that my care is confined to your selves, I owe a regard to the prosperity of other places:) the scope of this Discourse is to clear up the way of Salvation by Christ; I meddle not with those false Doctrines that have been invented by men, in opposition to this truth: the Lord hath been pleased to keep these Churches sound in the Faith, and does not yet lay a necessity upon his Ministers here to spend their time in the confutation of such erronions Opinions: but I have made it my work to establish your hearts in this Truth, to satisfie your Consciences from the Scripture in the safety of your reliance upon Christ, vindicating the same from those secret workings of unbelief that are wont to ⟨image 4⟩rise up in the hearts of men, that you and others may grow up unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, and the acknowledgment of the misteries of God, even of the Father, and of Christ: That you may be armed against those temptations wherewith your Faith is wont to be assaulted; and learn to live in all conditions upon the righteousness of Christ.