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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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2, Among those that profess to believe in Christ there are many men in whom there are very speaking evidences that they l•ad an holy life: they do not only walk in offensively in their conversation, but there is a great deal of the breathings of a spirit of holiness in them; their caring favours of ⟨p. 130⟩the fear of God, love to God, submission to the will of God, care of the advancement of the glory of God: there carriage has a great relish of pi•ty and holiness: there is as much appearance of holiness as can ordinarily be expected from men that have still a principle of corruption remaining in them.
2, Among those that profess to believe in Christ there are many men in whom there are very speaking evidences that they l•ad an holy life: they do not only walk in offensively in their conversation, but there is a great deal of the breathings of a spirit of holiness in them; their carringe favours of ⟨p. 130⟩the fear of God, love to God, submission to the will of God, care of the advancement of the glory of God: there carriage has a great relish of pi•ty and holiness: there is as much appearance of holiness as can ordinarily be expected from men that have still a principle of corruption remaining in them.
3. Many of those who has formerly lived a corrupt life, when once they are in appearance brought home to Christ, do give great evidences of an holy life, many that live among the people of God: do live very corruptly, but when once such men come to embrace the Gospel in appearance, many of them do become very exemplary in holiness, cast off all their former ways of sin, and live an humble, spiritual, obedient life as far as man can judge▪