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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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Objection, 1.
It seems not to be the work of the Spirit to convince ⟨p. 120⟩men that they may safely appear in Christs Righteousness▪ because after they have been convinced, they doubt again, and call it in question whether they may venture on the righteousness of Christ.
Answer,
We may well argue, that if they have been convinced throughly by the spirit, that they will never be utterly carried away with unbelief to reject the truth: but we cannot conclude that they would never doubt: men may call those things in question which they have learned by the spirit of God: so the Prophet did, 1 King. 13 17, 18, 19. yea, men may question things that they have been taught by the saving work of the spirit: God revealed it to the Disciples, that Jesus was the Son of God,