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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 9 › Argument 4: Argument 4.
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There is no necessity of seeing all those sinful inclinations that are in the heart particularly: there is a great variety as to the particular discoveries that God makes to divers men: and one great occasion of it is, the different temptations that they are under: some see more of a worldly spirit; some more of a froward, some more of an aspiring spirit: a man may have discoveries of his own heart, after he hath been a Saint many years that he never had before: if a man see the fountain it is sufficient, though he do not see all those various channels wherein it may run.
2. There is no necessity of seeing particularly their inability to every duty: they must feel themselves spiritually dead; they feel themselves unable to do any thing that is good: but some men can speak abundance more particularly to their inability to this ⟨p. 216⟩and that duty than others can: there are some duties that did not come into their thoughts at that time: it is necessary they should lose their sense of their ability to any thing; should not be conceited of any power or sufficiency: it is not enough for men to see that they can do nothing of themselves: men may say that, when they only find need of assistance, and not of the infusing of a principle of grace into them: but it is sufficient if they feel themselves spiritually dead: but there is no necessity that at that time they must particularly take notice of their inability to love Gods People, to be thankful, &c. though often they do; their thoughts are wont to be fixed at that time on such particulars as they were wont before to pride themselves most in: and such as they have special occasion at that time to think of from what the hear or read.
2. There is no necessity of seing particularly their inability to every duty: they must feel themselves spiritually dead; they feel themselves unable to do any thing that is good: but some men can speak abundance more particularly to their inability to this ⟨p. 216⟩