The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

Such threatenings as this are only declarations of what God does oftentimes do: there are some threatenings that are absolute; wherein God does absolutely declare what he will do: such are the threatenings of ruin for final impenitency and unbelief: but many other threatenings are but declarations of what God oftentimes does, and in their application to particular persons are to be understood with a condition: according to that rule, Jer. 18 7, 8. so that such persons may be said if they do repent: this is evident not only from the many invitations in the Scripture that reach and comprehend such sinners as well as others: but from hence also, that the generality of those whom the Lord accepts have been guilty of rejecting many reproofs, the generality of the Saints have lived to Mens and Women's estates, under means before they yielded any real obedience unto God: therefore this ⟨p. 297⟩threatening cannot be understood of the certain ruin of all that have hardened their necks after many reproofs: if you he of this number there is free liberty and good encouragement for you to come to Christ notwithstanding.

Such threatnings as this are only declarations of what God does oftentimes do: there are some threatnings that are absolute; wherein God does absolutely declare what he will do: such are the threatnings of ruine for final impenitency and unbelief: but many other threatnings are but declarations of what God oftentimes does, and in their application to particular persons are to be understood with a condition: according to that rule, Jer. 18 7, 8. so that such persons may be sayed if they do repent: this is evident not only from the many invitations in the Scripture that reach and comprehend such sinners as well as others: but from hence also, that the generality of those whom the Lord accepts have been guilty of rejecting many reproofs, the generality of the Saints have lived to Mens and Womens estates, under means before they yielded any real obedience unto God: therefore this ⟨p. 297⟩threatning cannot be understood of the certain ruine of all that have hardned their necks after many reproofs: if you he of this number there is free liberty and good encouragement for you to come to Christ notwithstanding.