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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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3. If God have wrought a spirit of Faith and Holiness in you that is a manifestation that God has set his love upon you: though you can find no reason why God should love you, can't tell why God should have any respect unto you, yet it is certain he does love you if you have a gracious change wrought in you; though he has cast away thousands of greater natural and acquired endowments than you, and of greater external enjoyments than you; yet you are one of those that he has chosen, and has set his heart upon. 2 Tim. 1.9. Who hath loved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose, and grace given us in Christ Jesus before the World began.
Discouragement 4.
They find things since their coming to Christ much contrary to their expectation: they thought that they should have had more expressions of the love of God, more quicknings of the Spirit, more help against corruption, more visible answers of prayer, they thought that if they came to Christ, they should have had little trouble or temptation, but have lived a sweet, easy and pleasant life: but things are far otherwise, things run very low in their souls, they have […] of darkness and temptation, they find very ⟨p. 328⟩evil workings of heart, and therefore they fear whether God has accepted of them, or be willing to accept of them, and to bestow salvation upon them, did they walk in the light of the Lord, and enjoy such communion with God as they expected, and feel such evident fruits of the love of God as they promised themselves they should not be so backward to believe; but since it is otherwise, it begets a trembling and fearfulness in them, it puts them to a great stand, hence the calls of God take less impression on them: especially because they think it is not so with others that come to Christ; others do enjoy more manifest tokens of divine acceptance, but they are both in inward and outward respects under tokens of divine displeasure: and this is an hindrance unto their believing,