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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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3. The Spirit helps to see the glorious excellency of God, and Jesus Christ, and thereby the great Objections of his heart do vanish away, and fall of thei• own accord: there are some less Objections which arise for want of distinct knowledge, and from a mis-understanding of some places of Scripture, which though they prove temptations, yet don•t wholly hinder th• workings of Faith: but the main Objections of the heart were that God could not find in his heart to pardon •uch sins as they have been guilty of, and that the Law threatens them with ruin: but the spirit discovers unto the soul the excellency of God in Christ, th• riches of Gods grace, and the preciousness of the righteousness of Christ, and then those Objections fall, Psal. 36 7. How excellent is thy loving-kindness O Lord, therefore the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings, Joh. 17.3. This is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ wh•• thou hast sent.
3. The Spirit helps to see the glorious excellency of God, and Jesus Christ, and thereby the great Objections of his heart do vanish away, and fall of thei• own accord: there are some less Objections which arise for want of distinct knowledg, and from a mis-understanding of some places of Scripture, which thoug• they prove temptations, yet don•t wholly hinder th• workings of Faith: but the main Objections of the heart were that God could not find in his heart to pardon •uch sins as they have been guilty of, and that the Law threatens them with ruine: but the spirit discovers unto the soul the excell•ncy of God in Christ, th• riches of Gods grace, and the preciousness of the righteousness of Christ, and then those Objections fall,