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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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The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 6 › Argument 8: Argument 8.
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Another way whereby it is made evident, is by the experience of many saints: hereby it is made evident to them, though not unto the world: every ⟨p. 131⟩believer has experience of a great change in himself, though they have many fears whether it be indeed a life of holiness that they live, it is exercising unto them whether they go beyond hypocrites, and are acted by any higher principles than self-love and conscience: yet there be several that at times do evidently see a spirit of holiness working in themselves: so that their consciences do bear witness that they are the children of God: besides what they do perceive of a daily bent of heart to keep Gods commands; there are at times more visible and sensible actings of grace: there are times when the strings are wound up to the height, when grace breaks forth as the light: and the heart is satisfied in that; that he has a spirit of holiness, John 21.17. Lord thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee: Psal. 18.23. I was also upright before him.
Another way whereby it is made evident, is by the experience of many saints: hereby it is made evident to them, though not unto the world: every ⟨p. 131⟩believer has experience of a great change in himself, though they have many fears whether it be indeed a life of holiness that they live, it is exercising unto them whether they go beyond hypocrites, and are acted by any higher principles than self-love and confcience: yet there be several that at times do evidently see a spirit of holiness working in themselves: so that their consciences do bear witness that they are the children of God: besides what they do perceive of a daily bent of heart to keep Gods commands; there are at times more visible and sensible actings of grace: there are times when the strings are wound up to the height, when grace breaks forth as the light: and the heart is satisfied in that; that he has a spirit of holiness, John 21.17. Lord thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee: