B10086:586
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 10
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2. You may see the greatness of this sin in not coming to Christ, from the fountain from whence it does proceed: in secure sinners it flows nextly from a contempt of salvation: their eyes are dazzled with the glory of the world; they are unsensible of eternal things, they regard not the end, and therefore it is no wonder that they do not regard the means: but in awakened sinners, the neglect of coming to Christ arises from these two things.
2. You may see the greatness of this sin in not coming to Christ, from the fountain from whence it does proceed: in secure sinners it flows nextly from a contempt of salvation: their eyes are dazied with the glory of the world; they are unsensible of eternal things, they regard not the end, and therefore it is no wonder that they do not regard the means: but in awakened sinners, the neglect of coming to Christ arises from these two things.
1. Pride: This way of salvation by Christ don't fuit their proud spirits: God has chosen such a way of life as suits his glorifying his grace; but it does not suit with their naughty hearts: this way wherein God carries away all the glory don't please them, and hence it is that they are striving by all ways they can devise to find out some other method wherein they may have salvation; they don't like it to be so much beholden unto God, but would fain find something in themselves to glory in: hence they have an opposition of spirit to coming unto Christ, John 5.40 you will not come to me that you may have life: it is not merely from weakness, but from pride and sturdiness of spirit that they don't come unto Christ.
1. Pride: This way of salvation by Christ don't fuit their proud spirits: God has chosen such a way of life as suits his glorifying his grace; but it does not suit with their naughty hearts: this way wherein God carries away all the glory don't please them, and hence it is that they are striving by all ways they can devise to find out some other method wherein they may have salvation; they don't like it to be so much beholden unto God, but would fain find something in themselves to glory in: hence they have an opposition of spirit to comming unto Christ,