B10086:424
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 9
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1. Try your Faith by the foregoing work of Humiliation: there is a preparatory work necessary, before a sinners closing with Christ: this is a work that comes between the rest of the foul in sin and the sinners accepting of Christ: men do not immediately step out of a condition of quietness in sin, into a state of salvation: a tree must first be prepared before it be laid in the building: the bodies at the resurrection must be prepared before life be put into them: so the heart of a sinner must be first prepared, before it be united unto Christ, Act 2.37. & 9.4, 5, & 16.29, 30 and hence the call of the Gospel is particularly directed to them that are prepared: to such as are a thirst, Isai. 55.1. to such as are weary and heavy laden, Mat. 11.28 not but that it is other mens duty also to believe: but because it is their next and immediate work to close with Christ; whereas it is other mens next work, to come off from the World, and out of themselves in order to their closing with Christ.
1. Try your Faith by the foregoing work of Humiliation: there is a preparatory work necessary, before a sinners closing with Christ: this is a work that comes between the rest of the foul in sin and the sinners accepting of Christ: men do not immediately step out of a condition of quietness in sin, into a state of salvation: a tree must first be prepared bofore it be laid in the building: the bodies at the resurrection must be prepared before life be put into them: so the heart of a sinner must be first prepared, before it be united unto Christ, Act 2.37. & 9.4, 5, & 16.29, 30 and hence the call of the Gospel is particularly directed to them that are prepared: to such as are a thirst, Isai. 55.1. to such as are weary and heavy laden, Mat. 11.28 not but that it is other mens duty also to believe: but because it is their next and immediate work to close with Christ; whereas it is other mens next work, to come off from the World, and out of themselves in order to their closing with Christ.