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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. 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.
4. The Evangelist John when he relates how the soldiers did not break the legs of Christ, as they did of those that were crucified with him, takes notice of it as the accomplishment of a prophecy: Joh. 19.36. for these things were done that the Scriptures should be fulfilled, a bone of him shall not be broken: but we find no prophecy that way in the Scripture: only this, that they were enjoined not to break a bone of […] Paschal Lamb, Exod. 12.46. Numb. 19.12. where•• God taught them that passage that at Christs sufferings not a bone of him should be broken.
4. The Evangelist John when he relates how the souldiers did not break the legs of Christ, as they did of those that were crucified with him, takes notice of it as the accomplishment of a prophecy: