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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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1. That Man in his natural state is an enemy to this way of salvation: as man is an enemy to the Law of God, so to the gospel of Jesus Christ: the heart don't like this way of salvation, man had rather be saved in another way; man is proud and can't endure to go a begging and be beholden to the free grace of God for his salvation: he had rather earn it himself, than take it as a gift of God: hence men set their wits on work to descry another way that is more suitable to their honours, and to find exceptions against this way of salvation by Christ: he don't like the method, and so is •••eating of cavils to turn off the calls of God.
1. That Man in his natural state is an enemy to this way of sal•ation: as man is an enemy to the Law of God, so to the gospel of Jesus Christ: the heart dont like this way of salvation, man had rather be saved in another way; man is proud and can't endure to go a begging and be beholden to the free grace of God for his salvation: he had rather earn it himself, than take it as a gift of God: hence men set their wits on work to descry another way that is more suitable to their honours, and to find exceptions against this way of salvation by Christ: he don't like the method, and so is •••eating of cavils to turn off the calls of God.
2. That man is ignorant of the gracious nature of God: men don't understand how merciful God is; are apt to measure the compassions of God by their own; and make a judgment of God by themselves: hence they are full of carnal reasonings against this way of life: they think it is a great deal more probable that they should be accepted on the account of some worthiness in themselves: they think it utterly unlikely that God should accept of them, till their hearts are better; they think it would be desperate presumption to venture upon Christ before they are better; they think God is so angry with them that he cannot find in his heart to pardon them: they take notice of the severity of God upon others, and conceive of him as