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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 11
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2. It is no impoverishing of God to bestow blessedness upon you: God is not the poorer for making you and thousands of such as you happy: God does not empty himself and lose of his fullness, he has never the less for filling of you: if a man that has much for himself give any thing to you, he has the less for himself, and that makes men the more backward to give unto others: but it is not thus with God, the Sun has not the less light for enlightening the world: God does bestow all his mercy and salvation without any diminution to himself; he is not the less happy himself by making you happy; he can spare all this glory to you without any wrong to himself: though this salvation be so great a thing, yet God can afford to give it: it is a difficult thing to men sometimes to perform their engagements to others, but it is no difficult thing to God to perform his offers to you, in my Fathers house there is bread enough and to spare, Luke 15.17. God has not the less glory for himself, nor for any ⟨p. 318⟩of his friends by bestowing glory upon you.
2. It is no impoverishing of God to bestow blessedness upon you: God is not the poorer for making you and thousands of such as you happy: God does not empty himself and lose of his fulness, he has never the less for filling of you: if a man that has much for himself give any thing to you, he has the less for himself, and that makes men the more backward to give unto others: but it is not thus with God, the Sun has not the less light for enlightning the world: God does bestow all his mercy and salvation without any diminution to himself; he is not the less happy himself by making you happy; he can spare all this glory to you without any wrong to himself: though this salvation be so great a thing, yet God can afford to give it: it is a difficult thing to men sometimes to perform their engagments to others, but it is no difficult thing to God to perform his offers to you, in my Fathers house there is bread enough and to spare, Luke 15.17. God has not the less glory for himself, nor for any ⟨p. 318⟩of his friends by bestowing glory upon you.