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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. God does sometimes withdraw from his own children the sensible quicknings of his spirit; God never takes away wholly his sanctifying presence from his people: God is present with them to uphold the being of grace, there is a divine manutenency whereby God does preserve the life of grace at all times: but the sensible quicknings of his spirit may be often withheld: God may often so far withdraw, that they may not perceive any special gracious operation of the spirit upon their hearts: and that as at other time• ▪ so in duties of worship: they may be left many times under great dullness and senselessness; left much to the ⟨p. 330⟩stoniness of their own hearts, without any special impressions made on them by the spirit of God: there are times when God makes their hearts burn within them: but there are times when they are left unto a benumbed frame of spirit, as if they had no spiritual senses, they have great cause of joy, but their hearts do not rejoice therein, great cause of sorrow, but unaffected with it, great cause of fear, but fearless; their senses are bound up, and spiritual truths that they think of or hear of don't sink into them, Mat. 25.5. They all slumbered and slept.
2. God does sometimes withdraw from his own children the sensible quicknings of his spirit; God never takes away wholly his sanctifying presence from his people: God is present with them to uphold the being of grace, there is a divine manutenency whereby God does preserve the life of grace at all times: but the sensible quicknings of his spirit may be often withheld: God may often so far withdraw, that they may not perceive any special gracious operation of the spirit upon their hearts: and that as at other time• ▪ so in duties of worship: they may be left many times under great dulness and senslesness; left much to the ⟨p. 330⟩stoniness of their own hearts, without any special impressions made on them by the spirit of God: there are times when God makes their hearts burn within them: but there are times when they are left unto a benummed frame of spirit, as if they had no spiritual senses, they have great cause of joy, but their hearts do not rejoyce therein, great cause of sorrow, but unaffected with it, great cause of fear, but fearless; their senses are bound up, and spiritual truths that they think of or hear of don't sink into them,