B10086:470
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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2. There is also another sort, whose Faith does appear from hence to be unsound: namely, such who believed that God meant them in the calls of the Gospel, because they found some good affections in themselves: if their heart had been dead and unsavoury, they could not have thought that God called them: but the foundation of their believing that they were invited, was, they found some goodness in themselves: but certainly this was built upon conjecture, and an opinion of their own: and therefore they could not be assured of it: they had no assurance that they were called, though they might have a strong confidence, yet they could not be assured from thence that they were invited
2. In the first closure of the soul with Christ, the Soul comes to him, merely upon the encouragement of the call of God in the Gospel: God invites sinners in the Gospel, to come to Christ, and many ways urgeth them so to do: and from thence the soul takes its encouragement.
2. In the first closure of the soul with Christ, the Soul comes to him, meerly upon the incouragement of the call of God in the Gospel: God invites sinners in the Gospel, to come to Christ, and many ways urgeth them so to do: and from thence the soul takes its encouragement.
There were many other things that encouraged ⟨p. 223⟩them before to wait upon God for converting grace, as the power of God; Gods converting of others, his strivings with him by his Spirit, but the thing that is his encouragement to come to Christ, is the call of the Gospel: he sees his warrant in the call of the Gospel: the call of the Gospel is the foundation of his faith: that is the reason of his faith that God calls him in his Word. The call of God does contain in it sufficient encouragement to believe; for therein God shows his readiness to save sinners, therein he shows that there is a way of salvation prepared for them: therein he binds his faithfulness to them, and lays bonds upon himself to save them if they come to Christ, and this is the encouragement to them to believe,