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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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The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 4
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2. This truth was also foretold in the Types of the Old Testament: God did by many shadows and figures teach the church of Israel this truth: a type is any person, action or thing, appointed by God to ⟨p. 65⟩signify or represent some Gospel truths; the types of the Old Testament were instituted of God to shadow forth Christ Jesus; they were a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ, Col. 2.17. and many of them did particularly represent this truth of our salvation by the Righteousness of Christ: particularly,
2. This truth was also foretold in the Types of the Old Testament: God did by many shadows and figures teach the church of Israel this truth: a type is any person, action or thing, appointed by God to ⟨p. 65⟩signifie or represent some Gospel truths; the types of the Old Testament were instituted of God to shadow forth Christ Jesus; they were a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ, Col. 2.17. and many of them did particularly represent this truth of our salvation by the Righteousness of Christ: particularly,
1. The sacrifices did teach this truth; the offering up of sacrifice was a principal part of the instituted worship of God of old▪ it was appointed immediately upon the •all, and the institution thereof renewed at Mount Sinai, and vindicated fro• many corruptions, wherewith man had depraved them, and although there were some other particular intendment of some of them, yet the general end of them all was to make atonement, and procure the remission of sin,