B10086:101
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 ...
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The third thing requisite to the Mediatorly Office of Christ, was his own consent:
The third thing requifite to the Mediatorly Office of Christ, was his own consent:
It was not meet that such an Office should be forced upon him: that it should be put upon him to dye for sinners, without his own choice; and that if we consider the innocency and excellency of his person, but he did freely consent to take this task upon him: his will as he is God, is the same with the Fathers; and as man he closed with it, he voluntarily undertook this work of redeeming and saving sinners: Heb. 10.6. then said I, lo I come in the volume of the book, it is written of me, to do thy Will O God, Gal. 2 20. he loved me, and gave himself for me, John 10.18. no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self.
It was not meet that such an Office should be forced upon him: that it should be put upon him to dye for sinners, without his own choice; and that if we consider the innocency and excellency of his person, but he did freely consent to take this task upon him: his will as he is God, is the same with the Fathers; and as man he closed with it, he voluntarily undertook this work of redeeming and saving sinners: Heb. 10.6. then said I, lo I come in the volumn of the book, it is written of me, to do thy Will O God, Gal. 2 20. he loved me, and gave himself for me, John 10.18. no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self.