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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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You may possibly think there is more carnal confidence ⟨p. 246⟩working in you than there is hope of your good condition should be strengthened by the sanctifying fruits of the Spirit; they are good signs: but I grant you are not to be carnally confident, though your Faith be of the right kind, and you live a life of Faith, yet you will be troubled with a spirit of carnal confidence as long as you live, Mat. 13.27. Prov. 30.6. where the Apostle says, we have no confidence in the flesh, Phil. 3.3. his meaning is not that ca•nal confidence is wholly mortified: but their Doctrine was that no confidence was to be in the flesh, and they allowed none:
You may possibly think there is more carnal confidence ⟨p. 246⟩working in you than there is hope of your good condition should be strengthened by the sanctifying fruits of the Spirit; they are good signs: but I grant you are not to be carnally confident, though your Faith be of the right kind, and you live a life of Faith, yet you will be troubled with a spirit of carnal confidence as long as you live, Mat. 13.27. Prov. 30.6. where the Apostle sayes, we have no confidence in the flesh, Phil. 3.3. his meaning is not that ca•nal confidence is wholly mortified: but their Doctrine was that no confidence was to be in the flesh, and they allowed none: