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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. Attend the Sacrament of the Lords Supper: the great design of this Ordinance is for the strengthening of Faith, therein is offered to us special communion with a crucified Saviour: therein is a sacramental representation made before us of the death of Christ: therein is a special offer made unto us of the blood of Christ for the remission of sins, Mat. 26.26, 27, 28. herein the hearts of Gods people have had peculiar establishment, some when in a discouraged condition are backward to come to this Ordinance, the Devil has a great hand in it, to kee• them from that which is the means of help: they are afraid that they shall eat and drink judgment to themselves: but God no where requires a faith of assurance in those that partake of that Ordinance: this Ordinance is a special help to those that are in the dark with a good conscience: and though it must be granted that to ⟨p. 339⟩partake of it without Faith is a sin: and so deserves damnation, and so it does to pray or hear without Faith: yet when the Apostle says that he that eateth and drinketh unworthily: eateth and drinketh damnation or judgment to himself, 1 Cor. 11.21. he intends particularly that evil of not distinguishing this eating and drinking from common eating or drinking: doing it either ignorantly or profanely: therefore he adds, not discerning the Lords Body.
3. Attend the Sacrament of the Lords Supper: the great design of this Ordinance is for the strengthning of Faith, therein is offered to us special communion with a crucified Saviour: therein is a sacramental representation made before us of the death of Christ: therein is a special offer made unto us of the blood of Christ for the remission of sins, Mat. 26.26, 27, 28. herein the hearts of Gods people have had peculiar establishment, some when in a discouraged condition are backward to come to this Ordinance, the Devil has a great hand in it, to kee• them from that which is the means of help: they are afraid that they shall eat and drink judgment to themselves: but God no where requires a faith of assurance in those that partake of that Ordinance: this Ordinance is a special help to those that are in the dark with a good conscience: and though it must be granted that to