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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 6: CHAP. VI▪
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and one of them would have had no efficacy at all towards our salvation, is not accompanied with the other▪ so that this principle stands firm, that that righteousness that does not procure all the good of the covenant, procures none, that righteousness can purchase no good for us, that is not sufficient for our complete salvation, that cannot purchase the beginnings of salvation that does not justify us: seeing therefore on the account of Christs righteousness w• have already the beginnings of salvation, that righteousness is sufficient for our Justification and Salvation.
and one of them would have had no efficacy at all towards our salvation, is not accompanied with the other▪ so that this principle stands firm, that that righteousness that does not procure all the good of the covenant, procures none, that righteousness can purchase no good for us, that is not sufficient for our compleat salvation, that cannot purchase the beginnings of salvation that does not justifie us: seeing therefore on the account of Christs righteousness w• have already the beginnings of salvation, that righteousness is sufficient for our Justification and Salvation.
The Second Principle is,
That God in giving the beginnings of salvation in a way of believing in Christs righteousness for salvation, does own that to be the way of salvation: God does in this way give such mercies as are evidences of his savour, and such as do accompany salvation: he subdues sin, quickens the heart in holiness, reveals his loving kindness, &c.