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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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Several things are here objected,
As 1. That Christ did not suffer spiritual death in sin, the loss of the image of God, which is a part of the penalty of the Law:
Ans. Christ bore the essential parts of the curse, not all the accidental; there be many circumstantial parts of the curse wherein there may be great variety: so one Reprobate does not bear all the pains, diseases and afflictions that others do: some Reprobates shall not endure bodily death, as they which are alive at the coming of Christ; so Christ did suffer some sorrows that were peculiar, which indeed there was no absolute necessity of from the moral Law▪ as he suffered a legal death from men, died as a Malefactor, with many aggravating circumstances: there was no need that Christ should suffer the same i• specie with reprobates, […] was sufficient that he suffered the same in ponder; ⟨p. 52⟩the death of the Soul in sin flows not from the curs• absolutely considered, but from the disposition of the patient: it is a punishment fit for sinners but not for • Mediator.
Ans. Christ bore the essential parts of the curse, not all the accidental; there be many circumstantial parts of the curse wherein there may be great variety: so one Reprobate does not bear all the pains, diseases and afflictions that others do: some Reprobates shall not endure bodily death, as they which are alive at the coming of Christ; so Christ did suffer some sorrows that were peculiar, which indeed there was no absolute necessity of from the moral Law as he suffered a leal death from men, died as a Malefactor, with many aggravating circumstances: there was no need that Christ should suffer the same i specie with reprobates, was sufficient that he suffered the same in pondere;