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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 5
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PROPOSITION ▪ 2.
That God engages himself by promise to give Believers eternal life: he does not give them some uncertain ⟨p. 95⟩encouragement of it; but binds himself by his promise, when God expresses himself in his Word, that he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, Joh. 3.36. and that he that believes and is Baptized shall be saved, Mark 16.16. he does not manifest merely his purposes enough all Gods purposes are irrevocable; neither are such expressions mere declarations of what God is frequently wont to do: as it is with many passages in the Book of Proverbs: but they are proper promises: God himself calls them promises, 2 Tim. 1.1. According to the promise of life by Jesus Christ: so Rom. 4.16. Gal. 3.22. and •his is a part of the covenant, indeed the main part of it: God is bound by covenant to give life unto Believers: and because Christ has purchased this and other blessings, that God is by covenant engaged to bestow; he is called the Mediator of the new covenant, Heb. 12.24. and hence it is a part of faithfulness to preserve Believers unto glory, 1 Thess. 5 23, 24. the faithfulness of God stands bound unto Believers, Heb. 10.2, 3.