B10086:94
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The first thing requisite, was the fitness of his person, whereby he was capable of discharging this Office: it did not become infinite Wisdom to lay such a task on one that was uncapable of performing it; and this requisite was found in Jesus Christ: this undertaking was too great for any mere creature, but it was not too heavy a burden for the shoulders of Jesus Christ: he was fit to purchase our salvation, and also to apply it: and upon this account he was much prized by God, he is said to be Elect and Precious, 1 Pet. 2.6. as a Prince prizes some men, because they are of such abilities, that they are fit to serve him in the greatest Offices of the Kingdom, so God having a design to save sinners, he prizes Christ as a person fit to bring about that design.
The first thing requisite, was the fitness of his person, whereby he was capable of discharging this Office: it did not become infinite Wisdom to lay such a task on one that was uncapable of performing it; and this requisite was found in Jesus Christ: this undertaking was too great for any meer creature, but it was not too heavy a burden for the shoulders of Jesus Christ: he was fit to purchase our salvation, and also to apply it: and upon this account he was much prized by God, he is said to be Elect and Precious, 1 Pet. 2.6. as a Prince prizes some men, because they are of such abilities, that they are fit to serve him in the greatest Offices of the Kingdom, so God having a design to save sinners, he prizes Christ as a person fit to bring about that design.
The principal fitness of Jesus Christ for the work of Mediator, consists in his being God man in our person, yet we must not think that he did not enter into his Office, till he was actually incarnate: the incarnation was necessary to his full discharge of that work, but he entered into his Office, and began to fulfil it before his incarnation: our sins were not actually imputed to him, till his incarnation: but he was a Mediator immediately upon the fall of man: from that time his blood was efficacious,