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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. The believing on Christ is the way wherein God has promised to carry on the work of Sanctification: in this way God gives forth the assistances of his Spirit for the carrying on of this work: God in the invitations of the Gospel calls us to glory and virtue, 2 Pet. 1.3. Faith in Christ is the condition of the covenant of grace, and therefore thereby God becomes engaged to keep men in the ways of holiness, as all other covenant mercies are made over to the soul in this way; so likewise sanctifying grace, and besides that God has directed us to exercise Faith upon Christ for Sanctification; he tells us that without him we can do nothing, John 15.5, that he is made to us for Sanctification, 1 Cor. 1.30. that whatever we do in word or deed, we must do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Col. 3.17. this is a principal means prescribed unto us in order to the carrying on of the work of Sanctification, we must attend other appointments and ordinances o• ⟨p. 250⟩God: prayer, reading, hearing, sacraments, watching, meditating & sim ▪ but we may not trust to any of our own strivings: But especially attend this ordinance of the covenant of grace, to roll our selves upon Christ, as being the purchaser and the dispenser of this blessing, waiting for the influences of his Spirit, and in this way he assists and strengthens his to lead an holy life.
2. The believing on Christ is the way wherein God has promised to carry on the work of Sanctification: in this way God gives forth the assistances of his Spirit for the carrying on of this work: God in the invitations of the Gospel calls us to glory and vertue, 2 Pet. 1.3. Faith in Christ is the condition of the covenant of grace, and therefore thereby God becomes engaged to keep men in the wayes of holiness, as all other covenant mercies are made over to the soul in this way; so likewise sanctifying grace, and besides that God has directed us to exercise Faith upon Christ for Sanctification; he tells us that without him we can do nothing,