B10086:517
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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In what conditions does a believer thus exercise faith in Christ.
Answer, 1.
Where he is more clearly satisfied in his own good estate; there are times when the people of God have very comfor table satisfaction that they are in a good condition: they have comfortable hopes that they are in a state of Justification, that God has pardoned their sins, and will save them; these hopes arise from a discerning of their former actings of faith, their sanctification, and that joy in the Holy Ghost which they have had, and at such times as these, they do live a life of Faith upon Christ, when they can see their sanctification, they do not build upon that as the matter of their justification, neither do they so live upon any signs, as to lie in the neglect of acting dependence on Christ: though there is too much of that Spirit to live upon signs, and to neglect Christ, yet this Spirit does not rule a Saint: but notwithstanding his hopes, his venturing himself upon the free and gracious offers of the Gospel, though he ⟨p. 243⟩finds comfort in those evidences that God gives him of his good estate; yet he is from time to time renewing his acts of dependence upon Christ, Cant. 2.3. I set under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet unto my taste.
Where he is more clearly satisfied in his own good estate; there are times when the people of God have very comfor table satisfaction that they are in a good condition: they have comfortable hopes that they are in a state of Justification, that God has pardoned their sins, and will save them; these hopes arise from a discerning of their former actings of faith, their sanctification, and that joy in the Holy Ghost which they have had, and at such times as these, they do live a life of Faith upon Christ, when they can see their sanctification, they do not build upon that as the matter of their justification, neither do they so live upon any signs, as to lie in the neglect of acting dependance on Christ: though there is too much of that Spirit to live upon signs, and to neglect Christ, yet this Spirit does not rule a Saint: but notwithstanding his hopes, his venturing himself upon the free and gracious offers of the Gospel, though he