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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 ...
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
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The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 4 › Argument 2: Argument, 2.
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God has foretold in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, that Christ should bring us to Salvation by his righteousness: therefore it is safe appearing before God therein.
GOd has foretold in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, that Christ should bring us to Salvation by his righteousness: therefore it is safe appearing before God therein.
God has foretold this both in the plain Prophecies that he gave to the ancient Church: and in those Types that he gave them wherein this Truth was represented.
1. It was foretold in the Prophecies of the Old Testament, God by degrees did reveal much of the way of Salvation unto the Church of Israel, though it fell abundantly short of those manifestations which he has given in Gospel times: yet what was then made known serves as a great confirmation of the truth of the Gospel and I shall not insist on such Prophecies as do only hold forth Salvation by Christ, without revealing the particular way of it: as where it is said, the seed of the woman should bruise the serpents head; that in him all the Families of the earth should be blessed: that he should be a light to the Gentiles, and salvation to the ends of the earth: though I might make good the Argument from hence: for our condition was such, that Christ could not save us without working out righteousness for us: but I shall only urge such Prophecies as do hold forth Christs saving of us by his righteousness: of which there are these four sorts.