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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 6: CHAP. VI▪
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4. Consider in what way the spirit of God works this conviction and assurance: and that is by a spiritual illumination of the mind: the spirit of God is not wont in adult persons to reveal this Doctrine in any extraordinary way: he works this conviction in such adult persons only as have the knowledge of the Doctrine by hearing and reading of the Word: men must not expect to be •aught that in a miraculous way which they man learn in an ordinary way: neither would this ⟨p. 122⟩be sufficient to work a through conviction and assurance of it: a man may ••ve things revealed unto him extraordinarily by Go• that has no Faith; as Balaam neither does the Spirit assure men of this in way of testimony: the Spirit of God is wont to testify and witness some things to the soul of the Saints, the Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God, Rom. 8.16. but he does not in that way reveal unto men the truth of the Doctrine of the Gospel: but he openeth our eyes to see the truth of it: the Spirit gives us eyes to see, and also the actual understanding of the truth of the Gospel: he puts a principle of spiritual understanding into us by a work of creation; […] were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord, Eph. 5.8. he also assists us actually to discern the truth of this way of salvation by Christ: while the soul is hearing, reading, and meditating of it, he puts a light into him, discovering it to be true: and sometimes while the soul is thinking of his misery, the spirit brings to remembrance some word, and with that puts in a light into the soul that satisfies the heart in the truth of the Gospel: and this is wrought these three ways:
4. Consider in what way the spirit of God works this conviction and assurance: and that is by a spiritual illumination of the mind: the spirit of God is not wont in adult persons to reveal this Doctrine in any extraordinary way: he works this conviction in such adult persons only as have the knowledg of the Doctrine by hearing and reading of the Word: men must not expect to be •aught that in a miraculous way which they man learn in an ordinary way: nither would this