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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 3: Argument 3.
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that is the sight of Gods love and glory as the Saints see it in heaven, is such that the nature of man in this state of mortality cannot bear it: it would kill him to have such a sight: so there is a parity of reason that the sense of Gods wrath in the extremity of it, is too much for mortal man to bear, and was the thing that hastened the death of Christ. 4. He suffered a state of death, and he continued in a state of death for some time; his body and soul were rent asunder: which state is contrary unto nature: the union of body and soul was dissolved, and his body left for a time stark dead, and his soul in a preternatural estate of separation, a state which nature does abhor; exceeding contrary to the instinct, and inclination of nature.
that is the sight of Gods love and glory as the Saints see it in heaven, is such that the nature of man in this state of mortality cannot bear it: it would kill him to have such a sight: so there is a parity of reason that the sence of Gods wrath in the extremity of it, is too much for mortal man to bear, and was the thing that hastened the death of Christ. 4. He suffered a state of death, and he continued in a state of death for some time; his body and soul were rent asunder: which state is contrary unto nature: the union of body and soul was dissolved, and his body left for a time stark dead, and his soul in a preternatural estate of separation, a state which nature does abhorr; exceeding contrary to the instinct, and inclination of nature.
2. It was great love for God to send his son to dye for us, when we had grievously offended him: for we were looked upon under that consideration, when God sent his Son to dye for our salvation: 'tis true' that at that time some of the Elect were in heaven' wholly saved from the guilt and pollution of sin: others of them were not then born, and so were uncapable of being actual offenders at that time, but we were looked upon in that action as offenders, for the sins of the Elect that were in heaven were not at that time satisfied for, their debt was not paid.