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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 9
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And you may try it these several ways; 1. By the foregoing work of Humiliation: 2. By the manner of the souls first closing with Christ. ⟨p. 205⟩3. By the living a life of Faith on Christ Jesus. 4. By that holiness that does accompany and flow from Faith in Jesus Christ.
And you may try it these several wayes; 1. By the foregoing work of Humiliation: 2. By the manner of the souls first closing with Christ. ⟨p. 205⟩3. By the living a life of Faith on Christ Jesus. 4. By that holiness that does accompany and flow from Faith in Jesus Christ.
1. Try your Faith by the foregoing work of Humiliation: there is a preparatory work necessary, before a sinners closing with Christ: this is a work that comes between the rest of the soul in sin and the sinners accepting of Christ: men do not immediately step out of a condition of quietness in […], into a state of salvation: a tree must first be prepared before it be laid in the building: the bodies at the resurrection must be prepared before life be put into them: so the heart of a sinner must be first prepared, before it be united unto Christ, Act 2.37. & 9.4, 5, & 16.29.30 and hence the call of the Gospel is particularly directed to them that are prepared: to such as are athirst, Isai. 55.1. to such as are weary and heavy laden, Mat. 11.28 not but that it is other mens duty also to believe: but because it is their next and immediate work to close with Christ; whereas it is other mens next work, to come off from the World ▪ and out of themselves in order to their closing with Christ.
1. Try your Faith by the foregoing work of Humiliation: there is a preparatory work necessary, before a sinners closing with Christ: this is a work that comes between the rest of the soul in sin and the sinners accepting of Christ: men do not immediately step out of a condition of quietness in , into a state of salvation: a tree must first be prepared bofore it be laid in the building: the bodies at the resurrection must be prepared before life be put into them: so the heart of a sinner must be first prepared, before it be united unto Christ, Act 2.37. & 9.4, 5, & 16.29.30 and hence the call of the Gospel is particularly directed to them that are prepared: to such as are athirst,