B10086:653
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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You scare your self causelessly; God has upon design so phrased the calls of the Gospel, that all our scruples may be removed, Joh. 6.37. he that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out: God has made our way plain to Christ: there can be no interpretation made contrary to the words of the call; and they bind the thing sure enough: there can be no interpretation contrary to the glory of free grace, which is the great thing that God does design: his design shall not fall to the ground: there can be no such interpretation as shall rob Christ of his honour, the honour of being a complete Saviour; yea there can be no such interpretation but what is suitable to the necessity of sinners: this way of salvation is proposed to be an help to us, and if we can't have salvation in a way of free grace upon Christs account, but that there must be some worthiness in us, it would be no help to us: ⟨p. 307⟩if God did stand for any worthiness in us we should be uncapable of salvation.
You scare your self causelesly; God has upon design so phrased the calls of the Gospel, that all our scruples may be removed, Joh. 6.37. he that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out: God has made our way plain to Christ: there can be no interpretation made contrary to the words of the call; and they bind the thing sure enough: there can be no interpretation contrary to the glory of free grace, which is the great thing that God does design: his design shall not fall to the ground: there can be no such interpretation as shall rob Christ of his honour, the honour of being a compleat Saviour; yea there can be no such interpretation but what is suitable to the necessity of sinners: this way of salvation is proposed to be an help to us, and if we can't have salvation in a way of free grace upon Christs account, but that there must be some worthiness in us, it would be no help to us: ⟨p. 307⟩