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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. Man by nature does not believe the testimony of God this truth cannot certainly be known but by faith, reason may argue something for it, but not conclusively: but natural men are destitute of a principle to receive the testimony of God: they are ignorant of the glorious nature of God, and so of his faithfulness, and therefore though they may look on it a thing probable, because of Gods testimony, having heard a fame of him, yet they cannot be assured of it upon his word; since they know him not: so that it is a great and wonderful work of Gods spirit to help men over all these difficulties, and convince them that 'tis safe appearing in the righteousness of Christ.
Consider 6.
The evidence that this work of the spirit gives into ⟨p. 127⟩the truth before us: and we may plainly gather from hence, that it is safe appearing in Christs Righteousness: For,
1. The Spirit of God is holy, and cannot deceive or delude us, it is in confident with the spotless purity of the spirit of God to convince us of that which is not true: who can imagine that the holy spirit of God would take pains with men, and work a miraculous change in them, to make them believe a lie: why does God busy himself so in this work, but that it is of everlasting concernment unto the souls of men: it is true, that God may judicially blind men by withdrawing light from them, but he never goes about to persuade men of a lye: would God persuade man to cast themselves upon Christ, if there were not safety in so doing.