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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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5. It was great love for God to send his Son to dye for mans salvation, when he would have been no looser if man had not been saved, if the case had been so circumstanced that God would have suffered much loss if men had fai•ed of salvation: there had then been a kind of necessity laid upon God to have sent his Son to dye in order to it: but God bestowed this mercy upon us, when it would have been no less unto him if we had perished.
5. It was great love for God to send his Son to dye for mans salvation, when he would have been no looser if man had not been saved, if the case had been so circumstanced that God would have suffered much loss if men had fai•ed of salvation: there had then been a kind of necessity laid upon God to have sent his Son to dye in order to it: but God bestow'd this mercy upon us, when it would have been no less unto him if we had perished.
This may be cleared up by these Considerations:
1. This mercy of giving Christ to dye for us, was the first thing wherein God laid out himself for our salvation: when a person has laid out himself much, and been at great expense for the accomplishing of a design, tis a disappointment to fail of it: and his expense is thereby many times lost: but God had not been before this at any expense for mans salvation: this was the first thing wherein God laid out him self for our salvation: with respect to us who live in these latter days; the death of Christ was actually before any other endeavours for our salvation: and with respect to those Elect that lived before the coming of Christ, his death was virtually before any other expense for their salvation, Rev 3.8.