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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 8
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2. True signs misapplied: that many times men mistake in judging of themselves, tho the rule they •o by is good, yet falsely apply it to themselves, they take that which they find in themselves to be another thing than it is: the rule is good but the qualification is not found in them: that rule which does indeed condemn them, they do justify themselves by: so they justify themselves by those signs of trial, of love to the Brethren, hatred of sin, believing in Christ, concluding upon some mistakes that it is so with them.
2. True signs misapplied: that many times men mistake in judging of themselves, tho the rule they •o by is good, yet falsely apply it to themselves, they take that which they find in themselves to be another thing than it is: the rule is good but the qualification is not found in them: that rule which does indeed condemn them, they do justifie themselves by: so they justifie themselves by those signs of trial, of love to the Brethren, hatred of sin, believing in Christ, concluding upon some mistakes that it is so with them.
5. Let us consider how such self-righteous men do hide it from themselves that they trust in their own righteousness: for the Scripture does so plainly witness against justification by works, that if they saw ⟨p. 188⟩that •hey trusted in their own works, that alone were enough to dash all their comfort, so that there is a necessity in places of Gospel-light, that such men do add this delusion to the other, to persuade themselves that they do not make their own righteousness the foundation of their confidence, hence self-righteous men please themselves that they believe in Christ, they trust in their own righteousness, and yet fancy that they trust in the righteousness of Christ; and this they do by such pretences as these: