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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 5 › Argument 6: Argument 6.
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This command of believing in Christ is a branch of the second commandment in the Law; by that command it is required, that we should worship in that way that he appoints, that we should attend such worship as is instituted by him, & not devised by man, and this is the great institution of God under the covenant of grace, that we worship him by Jesus Christ, seek to God through him, and believe in ⟨p. 107⟩God thorough him: Jesus Christ is the great ordinance that God has set up to be worshipped by: Jesus Christ as God is to be worshipped with divine worship, by virtue of the first command; Jesus Christ as mediator, is the means whereby we are to draw nigh to God, by virtue of the second command, as the sacrifices of old were a principal ordinance whereby God was to be worshipped, so Christ who was typified by those sacrifices, was and is the principal ordinance whereby fallen man is to draw nigh unto God: and through whom we are to believe in him.
This command of believing in Christ is a branch of the second commandment in the Law; by that command it is required, that we should worship in that way that he appoints, that we should attend such worship as is instituted by him, & not devised by man, and this is the great institution of God under the covenant of grace, that we worship him by Jesus Christ, seek to God through him, and believe in ⟨p. 107⟩God thorough him: Jesus Christ is the great ordinance that God has set up to be worshipped by: Jesus Christ as God is to be worshipped with divine worship, by vertue of the first command; Jesus Christ as mediator, is the means whereby we are to draw nigh to God, by vertue of the second command, as the sacrifices of old were a principal ordinance whereby God was to be worshipped, so Christ who was typified by those sacrifices, was and is the principal ordinance whereby fallen man is to draw nigh unto God: and through whom we are to believe in him.
And this command of God does argue the safety of appearing in Christs Righteousness, the command of God does evidence our assured salvation in this way; this would never have been commanded of God if it were not safe.