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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 Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Philippians]The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ: opened and applied. By Solomon Stoddard Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Phillipians]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. They are guilty of innumerable transgressions the sins of the Elect are beyond their account: they are more than the hairs of their heads, Psal. 40.12. sin is flowing from them as water from a fountain; their lives are filled with sin, besides the sin they committed in Adam, there is the sin of their nature, which is a standing provocation, which by its remaining in the soul, brings new guilt every minute; besides what it does by the influence that it has into actual transgressions: while they continue in their natural condition, all their moral actions are sins: besides those actions which for the matter of them are sinful, which are many; the rest are sinful for the manner, and after conversion there is sin in all their actions: there is abundance of iniquity, that every elect vessel that grows up to years is guilty of.
1. They are guilty of innumerable transgressions the sins of the Elect are beyond their account: they are more than the hairs of their heads, Psal. 40.12. sin is flowing from them as water from a fountain; their lives are filled with sin, besides the sin they commited in Adam, there is the sin of their nature, which is a standing provocation, which by its remaining in the soul, brings new guilt every minute; besides what it does by the influence that it has into actual transgressions: while they continue in their natural condition, all their moral actions are sins: besides those actions which for the matter of them are sinful, which are many; the rest are sinful for the manner, and after conversion there is sin in all their actions: there is abundance of iniquity, that every elect vessel that grows up to years is guilty of.
2. That every sin is a great wrong unto God, si• is an horrible injury unto God, sin is rebellious against ⟨p. 77⟩