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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. He leaves off quarrelling with God: before he was humbled, his hear• wrought within him: he could not bear the thoughts of it, that God should cast him off; his heart rose up against God, and he thought he had hard measure from God: his sins were all decreed, he had done what he could, he took great pains, and yet God did not show him mercy: his heart rose to think that God should make him to damn him: save and pardon others, and reject him: but now his mouth is stopped, he is silenced, he lets fall all his pleas, yields it to be fair for God to cast him off: he sa•s as David, Psal. 51 4. against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mayst he justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgest.
2. He leaves off quarr•lling with God: before he was humbled, his hear• wrought within him: he could not bear the thoughts of it, that God should cast him off; his heart rose up again•t God, and he thought he had hard measure from God: his sins were all decreed, he had done what he could, he took great pains, and yet God did not shew him mercy: his heart rose to think that God should make him to damn him: save and pardon others, and reject him: but now his mouth is stopt, he is silenced, he lets fall all his pleas, yields it to be fair for God to cast him off: he sa•s as David, Psal. 51 4. against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mayst he justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgest.
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