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Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to…Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to…
Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1717
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Ans. You don't need any thing to move God to pity you. The pity of God is only from his own breast. Hos. 14.4. I will love them freely. All that is wanting is, to answer the Law for you, to satisfy Justice, and pay the price of your Redemption, and this the blood of Christ has effectually done. It was only the Law that lay in the way of your Salvation, and the blood of Christ answers all the challenges of the Law. 1 Pet. 1.19. We were redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. His Sufferings were as much as Justice doth demand for our Redemption.
5. Obj. God seems to be too angry with me to accept of me: He must needs be angry with me, because I have been provoking of him all my days; and he appears to be so, in that he don't hear my Prayers.
Ans. God is always angry with Men until he pardons them: till the very moment wherein they are pardoned, his anger is not abated But he is never so angry with any Man, but he stands ready to pardon him, if he comes to Ghrist. Acts 10.43. To him give all the Prophets witness, that whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins. The anger of God is no passion, his anger is the anger of a Judge, He is angry because Men are guilty of the Law; but when they come to Christ, they are not guilty by the Law, the Law acquits them, and so Gods anger ceases. God is never so angry as to be unfaithful; if he be angry, he will not forget his Word.
Ans. God is alwayes angry with Men until he pardons them: till the very moment wherein they are pardoned, his anger is not abated But he is never so angry with any Man, but he stands ready to pardon him, if he comes to Ghrist.