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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.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 4
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.
1. Because the deliverance out of Egypt was a type of our spiritual and eternal deliverance: and therefore it is made the preface to the ten Commandments, Exod, 20.2. we are not concerned in that argument any further, than as it shadows forth spiritual redemption: they were delivered out of Egypt, that they might be brought into Canaan, which was a type of Heaven.
2. Jesus Christ is called our passover, 1 Cor. 5.7. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, he is called a Passover because in him was fulfilled what was shadowed by the Passover.
3. Christs blood is called the blood of sprinkling, Heb. 12, 24. 1 Pet. 1.2. this was not a peculiar reference to the passover: for the blood of the sacrifices also was sprinkled: but it has a joint reference to the blood of the sacrifices and the passover.