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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 Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Philippians]The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ: opened and applied. By Solomon Stoddard Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Phillipians]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
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5. The Son covenanted fully to accomplish the salvation of all the Elect, John 6.39. this is the will of the Father that sent me, that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again at ⟨p. 47⟩the last day: These things were agreed to between the Father and the Son.
[…] Proposition for the clearing this Argument is,
〈…〉 Proposition for the clearing this Argument is,
That Christs work as Mediator, was not to restore ••an to his former condition, but to bring him to Salvation: Our primitive estate in Adam was an estate of innocency: we were habitually holy, without any offence, probationers for glory, neither in an estate of condemnation, nor in an estate of justification: and God if he had so pleased might have appointed Christ to have restored us to our primitive condition; to have set us free from the guilt and power of sin, and so might put us upon it to have wrought for our own blessedness again according to the tenor of the former Covenant: but Christ was appointed to bring us into an estate of justification and salvation: Jesus Christ had his Authority bestowed upon him to bring us to life: John 17.2. Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him: accordingly Christ has done more for our blessedness than Adam was to do: Adam was to bring us out of an estate of innocency into an estate of justification: but Christ has brought us out of a guilty estate into an estate of justification: yea, Christ has done more for our blessedness than Adam did for our ruin: Adam brought us from innocency to misery, but Christ has brought us from misery not back again to innocency, but to blessedness: in this respect that Salvation that Christ has wrought is more eminent and remarkable than that destruction that Adam wrought: and for the purchasing of this, there was more required, than for the restitution of us to our primitive condition: the sufferings of Christ were sufficient to procure our restitution