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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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Answer, 1.
Men have had a great deal more of opposition to this work of Humiliation than they take notice off or understand: all those methods and ways that men take to establish a righteousness of their own, are from a spirit of opposition to this work of Humiliation: all mens endeavours to get any thing to commend them to God, are the workings of this spirit: mens flying to refuges of lies, and hiding themselves in the strongholds of their own righteousness, are because they are not willing to submit to God: all mens strivings to obtain the favour of God by their prayers, affections, reformations, are upon this account, that they are not willing to yield themselves to be lost: why do men ⟨p. 218⟩strive to earn their own salvation, but because they are unwilling to submit to the mere mercy of God.
Men have had a great deal more of opposition to this work of Humiliation than they take notice off or understand: all those methods and wayes that men take to establish a righteousness of their own, are from a spirit of opposition to this work of Humiliation: all mens endeavours to get any thing to commend them to God, are the workings of this spirit: mens flying to refuges of lies, and hiding themselves in the strongholds of their own righteousness, are because they are not willing to submit to God: all mens strivings to obtain the favour of God by their prayers, affections, reformations, are upon this account, that they are not willing to yield themselves to be lost: why do men ⟨p. 218⟩strive to earn their own salvation, but because they are unwilling to submit to the meer mercy of God.