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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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Consider, 5.
That this is a great work of Gods Spirit to convince men and assure them that it is safe appearing in the righteousness of Christ: it is a matter of exceeding great difficulty to give entertainment unto this truth▪ and hence it is that many men are never satisfied in it all their days, they continue all their lives long under the means of grace, and yet never come unto the knowledge of this truth, and many others whom God has persuaded of it have been long before they were satisfied, though they have been full of inward troubles ⟨p. 125⟩a•d fears and thereby put upon it to be inquisitive into th• way of salvation, yet were long before they came to Christ, their hearts were unsatisfied about their sa••ty in so doing: and after prevailing and clear conviction, doubts are ever and anon arising in their hearts, and this difficulty must needs be very great, considering th•se things:
That this is a great work of Gods Spirit to convince men and assure them that it is safe appearing in the righteousness of Christ: it is a matter of exceeding great difficulty to give entertainment unto this truth▪ and hence it is that many men are never satisfied in it all their dayes, they continue all their lives long under the means of grace, and yet never come unto the knowledg of this truth, and many others whom God has perswaded of it have been long before they were satisfied, though they have been full of inward troubles ⟨p. 125⟩a•d fe•rs and thereby put upon it to be inquisitive into th• way of salvation, yet were long before they came to Christ, their hearts were unsatisfied about their saty in so doing: and after prevailing and clear convicton, doubts are ever and anon arising in their hearts, and this difficulty must needs be very great, considering thse things: