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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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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.
3. When God is very angry yet it is safe venturing upon Christ: if you come to Christ, God will not respect you, though he be very angry: this is the way proposed ⟨p. 296⟩by himself for the removing of his anger: tho he be angry, yet he is ready to pardon in a way of believing; he is never so angry as to reject those that come unto Christ: when grievously provoked, yet he has a pardon in his hand to bestow upon all that will accept of it: there is encouragement enough in the Gospel to make you with joy to rely upon a provoked God: he assures you in this way, you shall be forgiven: though he be angry, yet he will not forget his promises that he has made unto returning sinners, Jer. 3.22.
3. When God is very angry yet it is safe venturing upon Christ: if you come to Christ, God will not re•pect you, though he be very angry: this is the way proposed ⟨p. 296⟩by himself for the removing of his anger: tho he be angry, yet he is ready to pardon in a way of believing; he is never so angry as to reject those that come unto Christ: when grievously provoked, yet he has a pardon in his hand to bestow upon all that will accept of it: there is encouragement enough in the Gospel to make you with joy to rely upon a provoked God: he assures you in this way, you shall be forgiven: though he be angry, yet he will not forget his promises that he has made unto returning sinners,