The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

This appears if you consider; 1. Because God has been at a great deal of cost in order to the salvation of Believers: If a man should engage so far in any undertaking as to spend a vast estate in it, we should readily conclude, that it lay indeed upon his heart, that he was real in it, and that his spirit was deeply engaged: and thus it is in this ⟨p. 280⟩case, God has been at great expense, he has laid out himself more for the salvation of Believers than he did for the making of the World: he has exercised much of his wisdom on this design, much power; yea he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth on him might not perish, but might have everlasting life, Joh 3, 10. must not his heart be much in it when he gave his Son to die? could any thing have induced God to such a strange dispensation, had not the salvation of Believers been a thing that his heart was resolved upon? God has by this given conviction to the World, that he is set to save believers: when we consider how many wonders God wrought in order to it, how he sent his Son from heaven, constituted him a Mediator, delivered him over unto death, it may give us great satisfaction, that God is really bent to save them: why should he go so far if he did not intend to go through: God that has spent so much for the salvation of believers, will spend a little more to carry the work on to perfection: God loves his Son too much to let him die in vain; to put him to such sorrows, and then to let the design of all his sufferings fall to the ground. 2. God has promised Jesus Christ to save those that believe on him; Christ Jesus did not die at uncertainties, the Father had engaged to him the salvation of believers: God covenanted with him, multitudes should be saved by him: and that in a way of believing, Isai. 53.11. by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities: and Jesus Christ in expectation of that has laid down his life, and is waiting for the accomplishment of the promise: Christ has taken Gods word, and has paid the price of their salvation; and God will not fail of his ⟨p. 281⟩promise: this eternal transaction between the Father and the Son, puts the salvation of believers beyond all question; God stands engaged to Christ, and Christ is set in his spirit to have this engagement fulfilled unto every believer: