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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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I fear I do not live a life of Faith, because I find abundance of unbelief: I am exceeding distrustful: see little as I ought to see of the excellency of Christ, of the stability of the Covenant, or of the freeness of Gods grace:
Answer.
It may be so, and yet your Faith may be right: there is a backwardness in Saints to believe, Luk. 24.25, 26. O fools and stow of heart to believe: Saints have but a little Faith they that have most have but a little Rev 3.8. this is the general complaint of the people of God, and generally it is from Faith, that they are burdened with unbelief: a spirit of Faith makes men qualified to discern their unbelief, and makes men see an heinous evil in it.
It may be so, and yet your Faith may be right: there is a backwardness in Saints to believe, Luk. 24.25, 26. O fools and stow of heart to believe: Saints have but a little Faith they that have most have but a little Rev 3.8. this is the general complaint of the people of God, and generally it is from Faith, that they are burdened with unbelief: a spirit of Faith makes men qualified to discern their unbelief, and makes men see an hainous evil in it.