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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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6. Rely upon God in Christ to maintain Faith in you; it is needful to have all your expectation from him; if men be in the use of means for the strengthening of Faith: and trust to their own endeavours, they give God occasion to blast their labours, and leave them to the doubtings and discouragements of their own hearts: no wonder if God lets them fall, that trust to their own strength: you are not able to maintain a spirit of Faith in your selves, nor to fortify your hearts against discouragements, by any power or wisdom of your own, therefore it is fit you should depend on God in Christ to work it in you: Christ is our undertaker to preserve Faith, Heb. 12.2. He is the author and finisher of Faith: therefore be not proud of your own strength, but under a sense of your own inability rely on Christ to work it in you continually.
6. Rely upon God in Christ to maintain Faith in you; it is needful to have all your expectation from him; if men be in the use of means for the strengthening of Faith: and trust to their own endeavours, they give God occasion to blast their labours, and leave them to the doubtings and discouragements of their own hearts: no wonder if God lets them fall, that trust to their own strength: you are not able to maintain a spirit of Faith in your selves, nor to fortifie your hearts against discouragements, by any power or wisdom of your own, therefore it is fit you should depend on God in Christ to work it in you: Christ is our undertaker to preserve Faith, Heb. 12.2. He is the author and finisher of Faith: therefore be not proud of your own strength, but under a sence of your own inability rely on Christ to work it in you continually.
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