B10086:206
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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This promise of eternal life is made to those that believe on the Righteousness of Christ: those that have their dependence upon the blood and redemption of Jesus Christ: all those that have their expectation from the Righteousness of Christ shall be saved, Rom. 2.25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood. We must place our Faith in the sufferings of Jesus Christ: this is that Faith triumphs in as the matter of Justification, Rom. 8.34. Who is he that condemneth, it is Christ that died.
This promise of eternal life is made to those that believe on the Righteousness of Christ: those that have their dependance upon the blood and redemption of Jesus Christ: all those that have their expectation from the Righteousness of Christ shall be saved, Rom. 2.25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood. We must place our Faith in the sufferings of Jesus Christ: this is that Faith triumphs in as the matter of Justification, Rom. 8.34. Who is he that condemneth, it is Christ that died.
Quest. Here we may enquire, What act of Faith it is, that is the condition of the covenant of Grace?
Ans. 1. That act of Faith, that is, the condition of the covenant, is a relying upon God through Jesus Christ for salvation, as offered in the Gospel: there are many acts of saving Faith besides this: Faith respects the whole book of God; all the Promises Threatenings Prophecies therein: by saving Faith we believe the creation of the World, the general Deluge, the coming of Christ in the flesh: but these actings of it are not the condition of the Govenant, so likewise by Faith we do depend upon Christ for particular out ward blessings, but though that be a thing that does accompany Salvation; yet it is not the condition of the covenant: but that act of Faith which is the condition of the covenant, has those four properties.