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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
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The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 5
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3. If God did not offer life upon condition of one act of believing, we should not have sufficient encouragement to perform one act of believing on Christ• if God should say to a sinner, if you will accept of the offer of salvation, both now and hereafter, I will save you: what ground could the sinner have to believe; the sinner would readily say, how do I know that I shall believe hereafter: he could see no safety in such an offer: a presumptuous Sinner that doted on his own strength, might venture on it: but a man that knows himself, could not find rest in such an offer; but now when he offers life to us, if we will now accept it, the soul can find encouragement enough there, Jer. 3.22.
3. If God did not offer life upon condition of one act of believing, we should not have sufficient encouragement to perform one act of believing on Christ• if God should say to a sinner, if you will accept of the offer of salvation, both now and hereafter, I will save you: what ground could the sinner have to believe; the sinner would readily say, how doe I know that I shall believe hereafter: he could see no safety in such an offer: a presumptuous Sinner that doted on his own strength, might venture on it: but a man that knows himself, could not find rest in such an offer; but now when he offers life to us, if we will now accept it, the soul can find encouragement enough there, Jer. 3.22.
And since God has promised life unto all that believe in the righteousness of Christ; it must ⟨p. 103⟩needs be safe to appear before God in this righteousness, we need no greater assurance of salvation than the promise of God: this is a sufficient security to believers, whatever unlikelihoods may appear to them at at any time of their salvation: the faithfulness of God stands engaged, and this is a foundation of everlasting comfort: the witness of God gives greater assurance, than the testimony of all the men in the world: if we believe the witness of men, the witness of God is greater,