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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 6: CHAP. VI▪
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R•m. 8.30 And whom he called them he also justified; by this Scripture it appears that it is Gods work to satisfy the heart in the safety of coming to Christ; when he says, that they are called of God, he means they are inwardly called of God: he intends not the outward call, because he speaks of it as a proper effect of Predestination, and certain fore-runner of Justification: and this inward call is nothing else but the enlightening of the mind to see the truth, and certainty of the outward call: so that those Arguments which God sets before us in his Word to persuade us to come to Christ: those he satisfies our hearts in, by the inward work of his Spirit: by his Spirit he sets home the precepts, invitations and promises of the Gospel: this inward Call is that which satisfies the heart; so that it answers the call of God.
R•m. 8.30 And whom he called them he also justified; by this Scripture it appears that it is Gods work to satisfie the heart in the safety of coming to Christ; when he sayes, that they are called of God, he means they are inwardly called of God: he intends not the outward call, because he speaks of it as a proper effect of Predestination, and certain fore-runner of Justification: and this inward call is nothing else but the enlightning of the mind to see the truth, and certainty of the outward call: so that those Arguments which God sets before us in his Word to perswade us to come to Christ: those he satisfies our hearts in, by the inward work of his Spirit: by his Spirit he sets home the precepts, invitations and promises of the Gospel: this inward Call is that which satisfies the heart; so that it answers the call of God.
Objection, 1.
It seems not to be the work of the Spirit to convince ⟨p. 120⟩