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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 8
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. Who they are that seek salvation by their own Righteousness. 2. What righteousness they do attain unto: 3. What are their temptations to seek their salvation in this way. ⟨p. 161⟩4. What confidence they have in their own righteousness. 5. How they do to hide it from themselves that they trust in their own righteousness. 6. The vanity of mens trusting to their own righteousness.
The first thing to be considered is,
Who they are that seek salvation by their own righteousness:
But before I give you their characters, it will be needful to premise two things: 1. They that seek salvation by their own Righteousness, do not expect salvation from the covenant of works, as it requires perfect obedience in order unto life: they dare not adventure their souls on the strictness of the Law: though they had need to do so, if they seek life by their own works: but they do not thus; they look upon their righteousness as that which will allay the Anger of God; and be an inducement unto God to save them, that which will win the good-will of God, and draw the heart of God to them: yea they look upon their righteousness as that which will bring God in their debt, that God is beholden to them for their service, yet they do not lay claim to blessedness by the strictness of the Law, for they know and confess themselves to be sinners, they pray for forgiveness; which things are inconsistent with justification by their own works: the Jews did not stand upon a strict covenant