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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. 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.
Direction 6.
Labour to get your hearts fully satisfied in the divine authority of the Scriptures: if men have scruples and misgivings of heart about that, they will be an occasion of discouragement: such jealousies will interrupt the exercise of Faith; for the word is the foundation of our faith: the authority of the Word of God is our warrant to believe: let all scruples of that kind be speedily removed, as things that strike at the very root of faith: see that you be well grounded in the authority of the Word: don't take it up as a tradition: as a thing owned ⟨p. 349⟩by those among whom you live: but satisfy your hearts upon good ground that the Scripture is no device of man, but the very Word of God: and indeed God has given us as much assurance that it is his Word: as we can reasonably desire and expect: he gives his own testimony to it: we receive the orders of authority upon their own testimony: thus God witnesses to the truth of his Word, he sets his hand to it, Zech. 12.1.