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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 7
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3. The promises of eternal life are made unto obedience as the sign of it: obedience is an evidence that a man is an heir of eternal life; good works do declare that a man is one that shall be saved: obedience is an evidence of the love of God, it is from love that a man is enabled to live a life of obedience; and they are an evidence that a man is a believer: where there is obedience, there is Faith also: men are sanctified by Faith in Christ, Acts 26.18.
4. The promises of eternal life are made to obedience, as where in God has appointed to lead men to it: God has purposed to lead men in a way of holiness unto happiness, and wherever he begins to deliver men from sin here, to deliver them perfectly hereafter: this is the order wherein God has appointed to bestow salvation, first to sanctify and then to glorify: ⟨p. 157⟩God has appointed to prepare all those for glory here that he does intend to bestow it upon hereafter; he prepares them ••re for that holy place, for that holy company, for that holy work that is there, though they shall be more fully prepared at the time of their dissolution: this is the method that God has designed to save men in, that they shall have their fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, Rom. 6.27.
4. The promises of eternal life are made to obedience, as where in God has appointed to lead men to it: God has purposed to lead men in a way of holiness unto happiness, and wherever he begins to deliver men from sin here, to deliver them perfectly hereafter: this is the order wherein God has appointed to bestow salvation, first to sanctifie and then to glorifie: ⟨p. 157⟩God has appointed to prepare all those for glory here that he does intend to bestow it upon hereafter; he prepares them re for that holy place, for that holy company, for that holy work that is there, though they shall be more fully prepared at the time of their dissolution: this is the method that God has designed to save men in, that they shall have their fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, Rom. 6.27.