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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 6: CHAP. VI▪
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The act it self is very observable: when the soul comes at first to close with Christ, there is a weighty change wrought in it, it is a thing quite contrary to what he has been doing; he has been reasoning against it, making objections, standing out against all the pleadings of God with him, but now when he closes with Christ, he lets fall all his objections, and gives entertainment unto Christ, before he despised him, now he prizes him, before arguments did not sink into him, now they do, now he makes Christ well-come: this is exceeding remarkable, easy to be observed, this carriage of the soul is ⟨p. 134⟩set forth in Scripture, by opening to Christ, coming to him, marrying of him, is so contrary to his carriage immediately before, that it is of easy observation▪
2. There is a great ability in conscience to take notice of the more secret stirrings of the heart: conscience has a wonderful quick eye: conscience […] a curious observer of mens actions, Rom. 2.15. the conscience takes notice of the secret windings and turnings of the heart; the desires, the ends, the thoughts that pass through him, Heb. 4.12. by the help of the word▪ conscience makes discovery of the secret thoughts and intents of the heart: there is a wonderful sharp sightedness in conscience to discover the carriage of the heart.
2. There is a great ability in conscience to take notice of the more s•cret stirrings of the heart: conscience has a wonderful quick eye: conscience 〈…〉 a curious observer of mens actions,