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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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4. God is as free to pardon hypocrites as any other men, if they come unto Jesus Christ: the people of God are afraid many times that they are hypocrites, but that should not discourage them from believing; hypocrites are as welcome to come unto Christ as Saints: God does not exclude those that have lived long in a way of hypocrisy: they may ⟨p. 324⟩come with freedom of spirit notwithstanding: men should not suspend the exercise of Faith until it be cleared up to them they are no hypocrites, when they are most in the dark about their state, their way is to trust in the name of the Lord, and stay themselves upon their God, Isa. 50.10. if you should be hypocrites, there is encouragement enough to receive the Gospel: God has pardoned thousands that have spent a great deal of time in hypocrisy: were not the Jews that Christ and the Apostles offered salvation generally to hypocrites? had not Paul lived a great while in a way of hypocrisy? and Nicodemus God rejects not any man that accepts of Jesus Christ, though he has been an hypocrite.
4. God is as free to pardon hypocrites as any other men, if they come unto Jesus Christ: the people of God are afraid many times that they are hypocrites, but that should not discourage them from believing; hypocrites are as wellcome to come unto Christ as Saints: God does not exclude those that have lived long in a way of hypocrisie: they may ⟨p. 324⟩come with freedom of spirit notwithstanding: men should not suspend the exercise of Faith until it be cleared up to them they are no hypocrites, when they are most in the dark about their state, their way is to trust in the name of the Lord, and stay themselves upon their God, Isa. 50.10. if you should be hypocrites, there is encouragement enough to receive the Gospel: God has pardoned thousands that have spent a great deal of time in hypocrisie: were not the Jews that Christ and the Apostles offered salvation generally to hypocrites? had not Paul lived a great while in a way of hypocrisie? and Nicodemus God rejects not any man that accepts of Jesus Christ, though he has been an hypocrite.