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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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And indeed holiness does not only accompany Faith, but the exercise of it does flow from Faith, Faith has a great influence into an holy life: the actings of Faith upon the whole Word of God does greatly quicken a spirit of obedience: it is a spirit of Faith that makes all the Arguments which the Scripture is full of to become powerful upon the heart: whatever God proposes to us in his Word to make us obedient, it will not have that effect upon our heart if it be not entertained by Faith: men believe commands, encouragements, threatenings, and so they become efficacious upon the heart: the whole Word of God works on men as it is entertained by Faith, all graces are quickened and drawn into exercise in this way: men believe and hope, they believe and love, they believe and repent: the Will and Affections never act in a gracious way, but when the understanding does discover ground so to do: by Faith we understand spiritual things, and so our hearts are carried after them; what ever grace is acted Faith is acted together with it: and therefore in the 11th to the Hebrews, whatever the Patriarchs did and suffered for God is ascribed to Faith.
And indeed holiness does not only accompany Faith, but the exercise of it does flow from Faith, Faith has a great influence into an holy life: the actings of Faith upon the whole Word of God does greatly quicken a spirit of obedience: it is a spirit of Faith that makes all the Arguments which the Scripture is full of to become powerful upon the heart: whatever God proposes to us in his Word to make us obedient, it will not have that effect upon our heart if it be not entertained by Faith: men believe commands, incouragements, threatnings, and so they become efficacious upon the heart: the whole Word of God works on men as it is entertained by Faith, all graces are quickened and drawn into exercise in this way: men believe and hope, they believe and love, they believe and repent: the Will and Affections never act in a gracious way, but when the understanding does discover ground so to do: by Faith we understand spiritual things, and so our hearts are carried after them; what ever grace is acted Faith is acted together with it: and therefore in the 11th to the Hebrews, whatever the Patriarcks did and suffered for God is ascribed to Faith.