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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 10
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Objection 2.
I am so bad that I fear God cannot be willing to show mercy unto me: it seems that God must needs loath me, and his heart is turned away from me:
I am so bad that I fear God cannot be willing to shew mercy unto me: it seems that God must needs loath me, and his heart is turned away from me:
Answer.
Such reasonings are but the conjectures of mens hearts, who are ignorant of God: there is no foundation in the Word of God for such thoughts; they are but the imaginations of men who know not God: God can find in his heart to show mercy to whom he pleaseth: he could show mercy to devils if he would: there is nothing in him to restrain the exercise of grace but his own pleasure: For,
Such reasonings are but the conjectures of mens hearts, who are ignorant of God: there is no foundation in the Word of God for such thoughts; they are but the imaginations of men who know not God: God can find in his heart to shew mercy to whom he pleaseth: he could shew mercy to devils if he would: there is nothing in him to restrain the exercise of grace but his own pleasure: For,