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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 9
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Before I leave this way of trial, I shall answer two scruples that may arise in the hearts of some of the People of God about their Humiliation:
1. Doubt: I fear whether I had a thorough work of Humiliation: I never saw so much of the wickedness of my own heart as some others do speak of.
1. Doubt: I fear whether I had a thorow work of Humiliation: I never saw so much of the wickedness of my own heart as some others do speak of.
Answer, 1.
There is no necessity of seeing all those sinful inclinations that are in the heart particularly: there is a great variety as to the particular discoveries that God makes to divers men: and one great occasion of it is, the different temptations that they are under: some see more of a worldly spirit; some more of a froward, some more of an aspiring spirit: a man may have discoveries of his own heart, after he hath been a Saint many years that he never had before: if a man see the fountain it is sufficient, though he do not see all those various channels wherein it may run.