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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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I have travelled in this work among you for many years, and I may say without ostentation, that I have obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful: I have made it my business to gain Souls to Christ, and build them up in Faith and holiness: principally insisting upon such things as have reached the heart of Religion; and I reckon it one of the choicest mercies of the Lord towards me, that I have not run in ⟨image ?⟩vain nor laboured in vain: I have great cause to bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and bless his Name that he has made me an instrument of bringing many among you into saving acquaintance with himself; and I count it worth the while to spend the residue of my days in promoting the welfare of your Souls.
I have travelled in this work among you for many years, and I may say without ostentation, that I have obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful: I have made it my business to gain Souls to Christ, and build them up in Faith and holiness: principally insisting upon such things as have reached the heart of Religion; and I reckon it one of the choicest mercies of the Lord towards me, that I have not run in ⟨image ?⟩vain nor laboured in vain: I have great cause to bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and bless his Name that he has made me an instrument of bringing many among you into saving acquaintance with himself; and I count it worth the while to spend the residue of my dayes in promoting the welfare of your Souls.
It is in pursuance of this design, that this small Treatise is published, (not that my care is confined to your selves, I owe a regard to the prosperity of other places:) the scope of this Discourse is to clear up the way of Salvation by Christ; I meddle not with those false Doctrines that have been invented by men, in opposition to this truth: the Lord hath been pleased to keep these Churches sound in the Faith, and does not yet lay a necessity upon his Ministers here to spend their time in the confutation of such erroneous Opinions: but I have made it my work to establish your hearts in this Truth, to satisfy your Consciences from the Scripture in the safety of your reliance upon Christ, vindicating the same from those secret workings of unbelief that are wont to