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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
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.
2. Obj. Christ did not suffer the torments of He•• which are a principal part of the curse:
Ans. He did not suffer in Hell: but he suffered the same for substance with them that are there: as […] the bodily punishments of Christ they were very great but he bare the punishment of Hell in his soul: […] bore the loss of the comfortable fruition of God, […] 27 46. and he had the doleful sense of the wrath […] God on his heart: this is held out, Psal. 110.•. […] shall drink of the b•ook in the may: and as we have […] of conscience through imputed righteousness, so […] had torment of conscience from imputed sin: wha• was it else that he conflicted with in his agony; was […] only the fears of temporal death, which many Marty• have born with triumph; he grappled wi•h the wra•• of God, that made him sweat drops of blood.
Ans. He did not suffer in Hell: but he suffered the same for substance with them that are there: as 〈…〉 the bodily punishments of Christ they were very grea• but he bare the punishment of Hell in his soul: 〈…〉 bore the loss of the comfortable fruition of God, 〈…〉 27 46. and he had the dol•ful sense of the wrath 〈…〉 God on his heart: this is held out, Psal. 110.•. shall drink of the book in the may: and as we have of conscience through imputed righteousness, so had torment of conscience from imputed sin: wha was it else that he conflicted with in his agony; was only the fears of temporal death, which many Marty have born with triumph; he grapled wih the wra of God, that made him sweat drops of blood.