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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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3. Conscience at this time is more than ordinary exact in taking notice of the carriage of the heart: at other times Conscience will take notice of small things, but at this time Conscience does most carefully observe what is done; for Conscience is now in a blessed condition: it is a matter of life and death how he carries now under the call of the Gospel: Conscience takes more notice of this than of hundreds of other things; this is a thing that his salvation depends upon: Conscience has been pursuing of the sinner a great while, telling of him that if he would not close with Christ, he was undone, and must burn in hell for ever; he has been neglecting to hearken to conscience, and conscience has given him no rest; now wh•n he comes to do the thing that conscience has been so long urging him unto; conscience will take special notice of that; conscience will watch like Benhadad's Servants, 1 King. 20 33. as a man would much observe it when he had completed a design ⟨p. 135⟩that he had been labouring in many years.
3. Conscience at this time is more than ordinary exact in taking notice of the carriage of the heart: at other times Conscience will take notice of small things, but at this time Consci•nce does most carefully observe what is done; for Consci•nce is now in a bless•d condition: it is a matter of life and death how he carries now under the call of the Gospel: Conscience takes more notice of this than of hundreds of other things; this is a thing that his salvation depends upon: Conscience has been pursuing of the sinner a great while, telling of him that if he would not close with Christ, he was undone, and must burn in hell for ever; he has been neglecting to hearken to conscience, and conscience has given him no rest; now wh•n he comes to do the thing that conscience has been so long urging him unto; conscience will take special notice of that; conscience will watch like Benhadads Servants, 1 King. 20 33. as a man would much observe it when he had compleated a design