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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. Gods manner is, to be training up his people to live a life of Faith: to be depending upon him according to his word, he is striving to bring his saints to live upon his promise, he does in his providences put them upon that, he takes away other props that they may lean upon the promise more, they shall have time enough hereafter to see things; in heaven Faith will be swallowed up in vision: but here he would have them live by Faith upon his Word; the people of God are apt to have too much dependence upon signs, and ⟨p. 331⟩to lay more weight upon them than upon the Word of God: trusting more to signs, and sometimes to fallible ones, than they do unto the infallible testimony of God: and upon that account God many times takes signs away: Christians have enough left them to live upon when signs are gone: God many times considers the weakness of his Saints as he did the weakness of Thomas, John 20.27, but yet he is by degrees bringing them more off from a dependence upon signs to live upon his bare word: they are apt to make too much of their signs, and too little of his Word; therefore he takes them away that they may have only his Word to trust to, 2 Cor. 5.7. for we walk by Faith and not by sight.
4. Gods manner is, to be training up his people to live a life of Faith: to be depending upon him according to his word, he is striving to bring his saints to live upon his promise, he does in his providences put them upon that, he takes away other props that they may lean upon the promise more, they shall have time enough hereafter to see things; in heaven Faith will be swallowed up in vision: but here he would have them live by Faith upon his Word; the people of God are apt to have too much dependance upon signs, and ⟨p. 331⟩to lay more weight upon them than upon the Word of God: trusting more to signs, and sometimes to fallible ones, than they do unto the infallible testimony of God: and upon that account God many times takes signes away: Christians have enough left them to live upon when signs are gone: God many times considers the weakness of his Saints as he did the weakness of Thomas,