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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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2. Affirmatively: it is an absolute submitting of himself unto Gods disposal: when humbled, he yields himself into the •ands of God: and makes an absolute resignation of himself unto the will of God; he ⟨p. 211⟩yields himself a prisoner: he would have yielded upon terms before, but now he yields absolutely: as a Rebel, when he sees himself conquered, yields; so does the Soul to God.
2. Affirmatively: it is an absolute submitting of himself unto Gods disposal: when humbled, he yields himself into the •ands of God: and makes an absolute resignation of himself unto the will of God; he ⟨p. 211⟩yields himself a prisoner: he would have yielded upon terms b•fore, but now he yields absol•tel•: as a Rebel, when he sees himself conquered, yields; so does the Soul to God.
This carriage is opposite to his carriage before:
1. He does not seek deliverance from himself, he yields to God, despairing in himself: he don't feed himself with vain hopes, and carnal confidences any longer: those hopes have all died away? his strong holds that he trusted in, are thrown down: he does not stay an• longer upon his affections, reformations, victories over corruptions, &c. he has no dependence upon any strength of his own, to gain any thing that will commend him to God: he has no dependence on Ordinances, on his own wisdom to discover any way of help: but he throws up all his carnal hopes as vain: and submits himself to mercy, Luk 15.17.