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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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1. The examples of Saints recorded in Scripture are a warrant to you to believe: their •aith is recorded to show you what you should do, how you should carry in l•ke cases: the examples of the faith of the Saints are set down by way of commendation, they are presented before you, as a pattern that you should walk after: the record of those examples does show that such a spirit and carriage is highly approved by God: you question whether or no God will not count it presumption in you to believe under such circumstances: but this may take off that: God has recorded it in his Word, that his people have been wont to trust in him in such cases: and you are called upon by God to follow their example; Heb. 6.12 be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promise.
1. The examples of Saints recorded in Scripture are a warrant to you to believe: their •aith is recorded to shew you what you should do, how you should carry in l•ke cases: the examples of the faith of the Saints are set down by way of commendation, they are presented before you, as a pattern that you should walk after: the record of those examples does shew that such a spirit and carriage is highly approved by God: you question whether or no God will not count it presumption in you to believe under such circumstances: but this may take off that: God has recorded it in his Word, that his people have been wont to trust in him in such cases: and you are called upon by God to follow their example; Heb. 6.12 be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promise.
2. In these examples you may see what a lo•ely glorious thing it is to depend upon God, and be exercising of faith in difficult cases: there is a great deal of the beauty and loveliness of grace seen in the exercise of it, it is a taking thing to see those glorious workings of faith, that were in Abraham, Sarah, Joseph, Moses and others of the Saints: the