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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PROPOSITION 1.
That the encouragement that God gives to those that believe in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, i• that they shall have eternal life: sometimes in the Scripture we find that they that believe, shall have their sins forgiven, Acts 10.43. but we must not understand that they are only brought into a state of reconciliation at present; from which they may fall away again; that only their former sins are pardoned.
So that if they should sin again, it is not at their peril of eternal damnation: but the thing that the Gospel encourages believers with the hopes of, is salvation: sometimes it is expressed in more general terms, that they shall not be confounded 1 Pet. 12.6. they shall not be cast out, John 6.37. sometimes it is expressed that they shall not enter into condemnation; John 5.24. sometimes positively: That whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life, John 3.16
So that if they should sin again, it is not at their peril of eternal damnation: but the thing that the Gospel encourages believers with the hopes of, is salvation: sometimes it is expressed in more g•neral terms, that they shall not be confounded 1 Pet. 12.6. they shall not be cast out, John 6.37. sometimes it is expre••ed that they shall not enter into condemnation;