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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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4. He suffered a state of death, and he continued in a state of death for some time; his body and soul were rent asunder: which state is contrary unto nature: the union of body and soul was dissolved, and his body left for a time stark dead, and his soul in a preternatural estate of separation, a state which nature does abhor; exceeding contrary to the instinct▪ and inclination of nature.
4. He suffered a state of death, and he continued in a state of death for some time; his body and soul were rent asunder: which state is contrary unto nature: the union of body and soul was dissolved, and his body left for a time stark dead, and his soul in a preternatural estate of separation, a state which nature does abhorr; exceeding contrary to the instinct▪ and inclination of nature.
2. It was great love for God to send his son to dye for us, when we had grievously offended him: for we were looked upon under that consideration, when▪ God sent his Son to dye for our salvation: 'tis true• that at that time some of the Elect were in heaven▪ wholly saved from the guilt and pollution of sin• others of them were not then born, and so were uncapable of being actual offenders at that time, but we were looked upon in that action as offenders, for the sins of the Elect that were in heaven were not at that time satisfied for, their debt was not paid.
And God certainly knew that the Elect that were ⟨p. 76⟩