B10086:460
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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Men have had a great deal more of opposition to this work of Humiliation than they take notice off or understand: all those methods and ways that men take to establish a righteousness of their own, are from a spirit of opposition to this work of Humiliation: all mens endeavours to get any thing to commend them to God, are the workings of this spirit: mens flying to refuges of lies, and hiding themselves in the strongholds of their own righteousness, are because they are not willing to submit to God: all mens strivings to obtain the savour of God by their prayers, affections, reformations, are upon this account, that they are not willing to yield themselves to be lost: why do men ⟨p. 218⟩strive to earn their own salvation, but because they are unwilling to submit to the mere mercy of God.
Men have had a great deal more of opposition to this work of Humiliation than they take notice off or understand: all those methods and wayes that men take to establish a righteousness of their own, are from a spirit of opposition to this work of Humiliation: all mens endeavours to get any thing to commend them to God, are the workings of this spirit: mens flying to refuges of lies, and hiding themselves in the strongholds of their own righteousness, are because they are not willing to submit to God: all mens strivings to obtain the savour of God by their prayers, affections, reformations, are upon this account, that they are not willing to yield themselves to be lost: why do men ⟨p. 218⟩strive to earn their own salvation, but because they are unwilling to submit to the meer mercy of God.
2. Some men are naturally of a more stubborn spirit than others: and upon that account they feel more dreadful opposition: though every natural man is equally under the power of sin: for they are totally so: the disposition to sin against God does neither increase nor decrease in natural men, though particular evil dispositions do: yet some men by reason of their temper are of a more stubborn spirit: and in other cases are wont to be more difficult to yield either to God or men than other men, and that is one reason why they in this case do experience more opposition.