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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. 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.
1. The Spirit of God is holy, and cannot deceive or delude us, it is in confi•ent 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 busie 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 withd•awing light from them, but he never goes about to perswade men of a lye: would God perswade man to cast themsel•es upon Christ, if there were not safety in so doing.
2. We are commanded not to quench the Spirit, 1 Thes. 5.19. we must cherish the motions, and entertain the convictions of the spirit; which certainly would not be our duty, if the spirit did convince of any thing that is not true: we are not bound to receive delusions, but by all means to be opposing and resisting of them, it cannot be our duty to entertain falsehoods, and give way to deceits: and therefore those convictions which we are bound to cherish, are certainly true:
2. We are commanded not to quench the Spirit,