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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 8
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5. They are discontented if they be not accepted because of their duties: if God don't comfort them, but they are held under terrors, they wonder what the matter is, and so likewise when God crosses them in his providences and follow them with afflictions: their hearts are discontented, they are heavy and displeased: they think it strange that their duties are no more regarded: that they should do so much and be requited so: they lay hard dealing to Gods charge, think it is not equal: they are ready to look upon it to be a piece of cruelty, that God don't help them when they have done so much for him: especially if God comforts others that have not been so long in a way of Religion, they find peace and communion with God: this makes the heart swell; men can't bear it that others should have mercy, and they not a their services make them very discontented under Gods healing towards them, Isai. 58.3. Wherefore have ⟨p. 168⟩we fasted say they and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no knowledge?
5. They are discontented if they be not accepted because of their duties: if God don't comfort them, but they are held under terrors, they wonder what the matter is, and so likewise when God crosses them in his providences and follow them with afflictions: their hearts are discontented, they are heavy and displeased: they think it strange that their duties are no more regarded: that they should do so much and be requited so: they lay hard dealing to Gods charge, think it is not equal: they are ready to look upon it to be a piece of cruelty, that God dont help them when they have done so much for him: especially if God comforts others that have not been so long in a way of Religion, they find peace and communion with God: this makes the heart swell; men can't bear it that others should have mercy, and they not a their services make them very discontented under Gods healing towards them, Isai. 58.3. Wherefore have ⟨p. 168⟩we fasted say they and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no knowledg?