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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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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 ⟨p. 348⟩Apostle says, we count them happy that endure, Jam. 5.•1. so we count them happy that believe: the rules of Gods Word carry in them a commendation of themselves, but when we see them practised, they are very taking: we count the exercises of faith, that we hear of and read of excellent: and they stir us up to imitation.
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 A•raham, Sarah, Joseph, Moses and others of the Saints: the ⟨p. 348⟩Apostle says, we count them happy that endure, Jam. 5.•1. so we count them happy that believe: the rules of Gods Word carry in them a commendation of themselves, but when we see them practised, they are very taking: we count the exercises of faith, that we hear of and read of excellent: and they stir us up to imitation.
3. These examples of believing do provoke unto an holy emulation: as one Scholar is provoked to emulation by the learning of another, so is one saint provoked to emulation by the faith of others, the examples of other mens faith have a tendency to make you ashamed of your unbelief, you may be ashamed to see your selves out-stripped by those that lived in darker times than you do: you may be ashamed to think that you are worse then others: that you should be more backward to honour the grace and faithfulness of God than others: these examples have a tendency to make you pluck up, that you may honour God as others have done.