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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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3.18 s•me have objected against the necessity Christs active obedience to our Justification▪ that […] his sufferings he satisfied for our sins of omission as […] as of commission▪ and if our sins of omission be •• tisfied for it is all one as if we had performed […] duty: but that is a mistake, we can•t he justified e• cept obedience be performed: Gal. 3.12. The […] that doth them shall live in them: suffering is the fulfil ling of the threatening, not of the command: mere su• fearing has satisfaction but no merit in it: suffering […] sins of omission only removes the guilt contracted […] the omission, suffering for sins of omission, put• us in•• such a condition as if the duty had not been omitted […] but not into such a condition, as if it had been performed: into such a condition as Adam was in; […] such as Believers are in: in a sin of omission there […] •wo things to be observed; a neglect of duty towards God, which is to be punished and a neglect […] the condition of life; which condition must be ate dead before life be bestowed: the forgiving of […] omission may be, where the duty is still expected […] a man fail of paying Money at the day, his omissi•• may be forgiven, and yet the money may be expecte•
3.18 s•me have objected against the ne•essity Christs active obedience to our Justification▪ that 〈…〉 his sufferings he satisfied for our sins of omission as 〈…〉 as of commission▪ and if our sins of omission be •• tisfied for it is all one as if we had performed duty: but that is a mistake, we cant he justified e cept obedience be performed: