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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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so sin is a great wrong unto God, Psal. 51.4. against thee, the• only have I sinned; and it is wonderful love for God to give his Son to dye for us John 3.16. so God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, &c.
I shall pass by other considerations, to help to show the greatness of his love, and only select those five that serve to enforce the argument that lies before us.
I shall pass by other considerations, to help to shew the greatness of his love, and onely select those five that serve to enforce the argument that lies before us.
1. It was great love that God should send his son to endure such sore sufferings for us; it was much that God should condescend upon any account that his Son should undergo such sufferings: it was a great thing that God should be willing that Christ should be brought into such a condition, when we consider the glorious excellency of his person, and the dear love of the Father to him, it may well be admired by us that God should find in his heart to put him upon such sufferings: we may well conclude that those persons for whose sakes all this was, were greatly beloved of God, that the heart of God was mightily concerned in their good: it was a great thing for the glorious Son of God to suffer any thing, much more to bear what he did: his suffering was very great, he was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, Isa. 53.4.