B10086:249
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 6 › Argument 7: Argument 7.
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.
1. That the comforter here is the Spirit of God: this is clear not only because he was a person sent to assist in and succeed the Ministry of the Apostles: but also because he is called the Spirit of truth, John 14.16, 17. He shall give you another comforter, even the Spirit of Truth. 2. That the works of the Spirit here is conviction: so 'tis in the Margin, the word signifies to convince by Argument and Reason; and here is the Argument that the Spirit shall convince by ver. 10. Because I go to my Father and ye see me no more, so the word is used, John 8.9. 1 Cor. 14.24. 3. That the thing that the Spirit does convince of, is our safety in Christs Righteousness: it is his righteousness that he speaks of: for his going to the Father is the argument of it; and it is the sufficiency of his righteousness to our salvation,
1. That the comforter here is the Spirit of God: this is clear not only because he was a person sent to assist in and succeed the Ministry of the Apostles: but also because he is called the Spirit of truth, John 14.16, 17. He shall give you another comforter, even the Spirit of Truth. 2. That the works of the Spirit here is conviction: so 'tis in the Margent, the word signifies to convince by Argument and Reason; and here is the Argument that the Spirit shall convince by ver. 10. Because I go to my Father and ye see me no more, so the word is used, John 8.9. 1 Cor. 14.24. 3. That the thing that the Spirit does convince of, is our safety in Christs Righteousness: it is his righteousness that he speaks of: for his going to the Father is the argument of it; and it is the sufficiency of his righteousness to our salvation,