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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 It was great love, for God to give his Son to dye for our Salvation, in this respect that he didst, nor having received, nor ever expecting to receive satisfaction for the mercy: our salvation is principally from the grace of God: but that has been paid for; but the sending of Christ to die for sinners is merely from the grace of God, and has never been paid for, nor ever will: Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and eternal glory have been purchased: but the sending of Christ into the world to die was never purchased, God never received any recompense for this mercy, he never had any satisfaction for this mercy, 1 Joh 4.10. He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins: the method and order of working about our salvation is this:
4 It was great love, for God to give his Son to dye for our Salvation, in this respect that he did•t, nor having received, nor ever expecting to receive satisfaction for the mercy: our salvation is principally from the grace of God: but that has been paid for; but the sending of Christ to die for sinners is meerly from the grace of God, and has never been paid for, nor ever will: Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and eternal glory have been purchased: but the sending of Christ into the world to die was never purchased, God never received any recompence for this mercy, he never had any satisfaction for this mercy, 1 Joh 4.10. He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins: the method and order of working about our salvation is this:
1. Free and gracious Election, which is the first cause of Redemption and Salvation, and an effect of neither of them.
2. Redemption which is the effect of Election, and cause of Salvation.