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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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God is exceeding angry with me: he is in his providences testifying against me; and fills me with terrors; and though I cry to him, he don•t regard my cries, therefore I am afraid to believe:
Answer:
1. The great thing that God is angry with you for is your unbelief: the despising of the Gospel is the great provoking sin: that was it that greatly provoked God against the Jews, Rom. 11.20. they were broken off by unbelief: and this should put you upon it to make hast to Christ, that you may not provoke him more to anger against you: the longer you live in unbelief the more angry God will be.
2. Anger in God is not a passion as it is in men: God is not capable of being angry after that manner that men are angry: men are so angry sometimes that they cannot forget an injury: they are quite overruled with this passion; passion masters them they are in servitude to it: but God is not passionate, he is never transported with anger, anger is but figuratively applied unto God, it notes his will to punish and chasten men for their sins: but in men it is a violent affection that many times they cannot restrain.