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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. The invitation is not confined to men that have these qualifications, but only particularly applied unto them; such are under special temptation, and have special need of support, it is one thing to apply the call to one particular sort of men, another to limit it, and confine it to them; it may be applied particularly to young ones yet that does not exclude the Ancient, to poor ones, yet that does not exclude the wealthy, to afflicted ones, and that does not exclude men that are in prosperity, unto the Jews, but that does not exclude the Gentiles▪ Rev. 22.22. Whoever will let him come and take the water of life freely.
2. The invitation is not confined to men that have these qualifications, but only particularly applied unto them; such are under special temptation, and have special need of support, it is one thing to apply the call to one particular sort of men, another to limit it, and confine it to them; it may be applied particularly to young ones yet that does not exclude the Antient, to poor ones, yet that does not exclude the wealthy, to afflicted ones, and that does not exclude men that are in prosperity, unto the Jews, but that does not exclude the Gentiles▪ Rev. 22.22. Whoever will let him come and take the water of life freely.
Objection 8.
I have not a work of Humiliation, I am not brought wholly out of my self, therefore I am not called?