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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 7
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.
1. It is Faith on God: a relying or depending upon him.
2. The consideration under which, this is acted on God, that is as having raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; that is, as having wrought out salvation for us by Jesus Christ: it may be objected against this interpretation, that this Faith that was imputed for righteousness to Abraham is called a blessing God, Rom. 4.3. and the promise that he believed was a promise of a numerous posterity: Gen. 15.1, 5, 6.
Ans. This Faith of his did include in it a believing of the promised seed, and a believing on him: God had before promised, that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed, Gen. 12.3. and now he promises him a posterity like the stars in number: and Abraham entertains this promise as it included in it the promised seed, and as Christ says, rejoiced to see his day, and saw it, and was glad, Job 8.56. this was reckoned unto him for Righteousness, this is plain from Gal. 3.6, 7, 8.
Ans. This Faith of his did include in it a believing of the promised seed, and a believing on him: God had before promised, that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed, Gen. 12.3. and now he promises him a posterity like the stars in number: and Abraham entertains this promise as it included in it the promised seed, and as Christ says, rejoyced to see his day, and saw it, and was glad, Job 8.56. this was reckoned unto him for Righteousness, this is plain from