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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 7
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2. Sometimes when God promises forgiveness unto Obedience, the meaning is, that if the soul do return unto God by a true work of conversion he shall be justified: when men are converted they are brought into a state of acceptance with God: God is reconciled unto them: so that place is to be understood, Isa. 55.7. let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him: Act 3.19. repent therefore and be c•• verted that your sins may be blotted out: and the reason why God promises forgiveness upon conversion is, because Faith which is the condition of the covenant is included in conversion: converted persons have Faith in Christ Jesus.
2. Sometimes when God promises forgiveness unto Obedience, the meaning is, that if the soul do return unto God by a true work of conversion he shall be justified: when men are converted they are brought into a state of acceptance with God: God is reconciled unto them: so that place is to be understood, Isa. 55.7. let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him: Act 3.19. repent therefore and be c•• verted that your sins may be blotted out: and the reason why God promises forgiveness upon conversion is, because Faith which is the condition of the covenant is included in conversion: converted persons have Fait• in Christ Jesus.
3. Sometimes when forgiveness is promised unto particular acts of Obedience, the meaning is that those acts of obedience are a sign that a man is in a justified condition: so that is to be understood, M••. 6.14. for if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you: and that 1 John 1.9. If […] confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins: these things are not the condition of forgiveness, much less the meritorious cause of forgiveness: but they are a sign that a man is such an one, to whom the promise of forgiveness does belong: so any one upright act of obedience is a sign that a