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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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Answer.
Many times when God comes with that inward call of the Gospel, he does not at one instant let in such light as does overcome all objections: but after God begins to bring the call home to the soul, there are some strugglings of unbelief before he yields: sometimes the light is such that it strikes all objections dead at a blow: sometimes it answers them gradually, the light breaks in fuller and fuller till at last it quite overcomes him, as in Moses's call.
Many times when God comes with that inward call of the Gospel, he does not at one instant let in such light as does overcome all objections: but after God begins to bring the call home to the soul, there are some struglings of unbelief before he yields: sometimes the light is such that it strikes all objections dead at a blow: sometimes it answers them gradually, the light breaks in fuller and fuller till at last it quite overcomes him, as in Moses's call.
Doubt 2.
I fear my closing was not right, because when I came first to Christ I had a fear and trembling on my heart: I bad not such full satisfaction as some have; but crowded through difficulties: