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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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3. By promises of particular mercies: God does draw nigh to some of his people, and by his spirit make known unto them that he will bestow some particular mercy upon them: thus he sometimes promises assistance in their works, recovery from sickness, public deliverance: of old God has sometimes by the Prophets made particular promises to wicked men, as to Ahab and Jehu: whether he does any such thing by his spirit now to those that are carnal men, is not so certain: but undoubtedly he does to some Saints: and that in answer to their prayers: when they have been begging a mercy for God, he by some promise gives assurance to the soul, that the request shall be fulfilled.
3. By promises of particular mercies: God does draw nigh to some of his people, and by his spirit make known unto them that he will bestow some particular mercy upon them: thus he sometimes promises assistance in their works, recovery from sickness, publick deliverance: of old God has sometimes by the Prophets made particular promises to wicked men, as to Abab and Jehu: whether he does any such thing by his spirit now to those that are carnal men, is not so certain: but undoubtedly he does to some Saints: and that in answer to their prayers: when they have been begging a mercy for God, he by some promise gives assurance to the soul, that the request shall be fullfilled.
4. By witnessing his love to the soul: God does not only help the soul to gather it by consequence, but God by his spirit does evidence the same to the soul: that he may quicken the heart in holiness, and that he may help the soul under temptations and sinking discouragements; or arm him against some special conflicts, he gives witness to his good estate, Gen. 7.1. Rom. 8.16. this differs much from those tastes that hypocrites may have; wherein they have some sense of the sweetness that is in promises: for this is by way of testimony: yea the spirit does make it manifest at that time that it is his testimony: and hereby this differs from the delusions