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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 7 › Argument 9: Argument IX.
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& therefore it is said, that Noah by preparing the Ark became Heir of the Righteousness which is by Faith, Hebr. 11.7. 2. Baptism does save us, as it is a shadow of some spiritual thing: therefore it is said, the like figure even Baptism sav•s us: not but that Baptism has some real influence into salvation, as indeed all Ordinances have, so the Types of old: but the salvation he attributes to Baptism is representative. ⟨p. 144⟩3. The Salvation represented by Baptism is the purging of the Conscience from the guilt of sin; called the answer of a good Conscience: the washing of the body signifies the washing of the soul. 4. The reason why he ascribes the answer of a good Conscience to the resurrection of Christ, and not to his death, is because. though his death purchased it, yet his resurrection is the great evidence of the satisfactoriness of his sufferings: therefore we are said to be begotten unto a lively hope thereby, 1 Pet. 1.3.
2. We are taught the efficiency of Christs Righteousness unto salvation by the Ordinance of the Lords Supper: the Lords Supper was instituted by Christ immediately before his sufferings, wherein Bread and Wine in the celebration of that Ordinance are made the signs of the body and blood of Christ; they are not natural signs of any such thing, but have that signification put upon them by Christ: and God is teaching us in this Ordinance, that we have salvation through the sufferings of Christ.
2. We are taught the efficiency of Christs Righteousness unto salvation by the Ordinance of the Lords Supper: the Lords Supper was instituted by Christ immediately before his sufferings, wherein Bread and Wine in the celebration of that Ordinance are made the signs of the body and blood of Christ; they are not natural signs of any such thing, but have that signification put upon them by Christ: and God is teaching us in this Ordinance, that we have falvation through the sufferings of Christ.