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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 when you are at a loss about your conversion, ⟨p. 333⟩you can venture upon Jesus Christ merely upon Gospel encouragements, that is a sign that you were converted: the actings of Faith on Christ from the apprehension of his excellency, having no dependence on that that you are or have hopes that you are in a good estate already, is a sign of a good estate, Phil. 3.3. we rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
3. If when you are at a loss about your conversion, ⟨p. 333⟩you can venture upon Jesus Christ meerly upon Gospel encouragements, that is a sign that you were converted: the actings of Faith on Christ from the apprehension of his excellency, having no dependance on that that you are or have hopes that you are in a good estate already, is a sign of a good estate, Phil. 3.3. we rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Discouragement 6.
That they have a slighty and unbroken heart, they have not a due sense of sin, they have been provoking of God by sinful carriages, and have not a due sense of their iniquities upon their hearts, and they think it would be a daring and presumptuous thing to go presently and rejoice in Christ▪ they have more need to get a broken heart first, to get their heart affected with sin, to be stirring up a spirit of self-loathing and hatred of sin: God expects a contrite and a broken spirit, we had need have our hearts loaded and burdened with sin: before we come unto Christ for pardon.