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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 gain considerably by your Faith, if you gain this to be kept following of God, 1 Pet. 1.5. you must not be discouraged, because God does not give you such signs as you desire, Joh. 20 29. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed: the measures of comfort that God gives to his People are very various, and sometimes God puts his people upon it, against hope, to believe in hope: and that is a sign of a good Faith, when a man sees but little coming▪ and yet will believe still, Rom. 4.18. Abraham against hope believed in h•pe.
Doubt 4.
I am afraid because I am so bold to trust in God from time to time though I have so much s•n: I am afraid it is a life of Presumption, not Faith: