B10086:284
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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1. The people of God in a way of believing, have peace of conscience: and this is not a particular privilege of some believers, but a blessing that all do in some degree partake of: those men that before their coming to Christ, were under the terrors of an evil conscience, conscience was terrifying of them, and binding them over to eternal judgement, do upon their closing with Christ, enjoy a tranquility of mind, and inward peace.
1. The people of God in a way of believing, have peace of conscience: and this is not a particular priviledge of some believers, but a blessing that all do in some degree partake of: those men that before their coming to Christ, were under the terrors of an evil conscience, conscience was terrifying of them, and binding them over to eternal judgement, do upon their closing with Christ, enjoy a tranquility of mind, and inward peace.
Indeed this peace may be interrupted and disturbed, because of darkness and temptations, and because conscience is but in part satisfied: but they are never brought back to take up such conclusions, against themselves as before their closing with Christ, but commonly they do enjoy some comfortable serenity of heart: have the answer of a good conscience by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 3.21. this comes to pass by these two things.
Indeed this peace may be interrupted and disturbed, because of darkness and temptations, and because conscience is but in part satisfyed: but they are never brought back to take up such conclusions, against themselves as before their closing with Christ, but commonly they do enjoy some comfortable serenity of heart: have the answer of a good conscience by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 3.21. this comes to pass by these two things.