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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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1. It would be a putting of too much honour upon Christ and his righteousness: if it were not ⟨p. 108⟩safe appearing in Christ Righteousness, then Christs Righteousness were not worthy to be believed in▪ if it were not safe trusting in it, then we should give too high a commendation to it, when we believe in it: for when we believe in it, we proclaim it to be safe so to do: it would be an idolizing of Christs righteousness, to trust in it, if it were not safe so to do; it is a fault to believe in that which cannot save: when we believe in Christs Righteousness, we give him the honour of having purchased salvation for us, if it were not safe to trust in Christs righteousness, then in so doing we should give him a glory that belongs not to him.
2. It would be self-flattery for us to believe in the righteousness of Christ; if it were not safe appearing in it, it could not be lawful to trust in it: to trust in it would be presumption, what would it be, but to delude our selves, and to please our selves with an idle dream, which would deceive us: men are blamed in the Word of God for such confidences, Isa. 29.8. it is not lawful or warrantable for us to believe in that which we have not sufficient encouragement to believe in; but we have not sufficient encouragement to believe in the righteousness of Christ; if it be not safe to appear be•ore God in it: what can encourage us to depend upon, and be satisfied in that which it is not safe to depend upon.
2. If it be commanded that we belie on the righteousness of Christ, then it is duty so o do: then we are bound in conscience to come unto Christ, we cannot without sin stay away from Christ: and therefore surely it is safe […] in the righteousness of Christ: the holy God would never make