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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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I Answer.
1. That when Heaven is called a recompense, the word is not taken for that which is deserved; there is a plain difference in the way wherein God inflicts death and bestows life, Rom. 6 23. the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
1. That when Heaven is called a recompence, the word is not taken for that which is deserved; there is a plain difference in the way wherein God inflicts death and bestows life, Rom. 6 23. the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
2. Heaven is not properly bestowed upon the Saints upon the account of their obedience as the condition of it: it is upon the account of the obedience of Christ as the meritorious cause, and upon the account of their Faith as the condition of it: their obedience is indeed the way wherein they do receive it, and so it is a recompense of it: they have heaven in a way of obedience, and heaven will make an abundant recompense for all their labour and travail: the people of God take pains, undergo hardships, undergo many temptations and conflicts in a way of obedience; but heaven will make amends for all, and abundantly recompense all their trouble in the way of serving God: at the end of their journey they shall receive heaven, and that will make amends for all their trouble.
2. Heaven is not properly bestowed upon the Saints upon the account of their obedience as the condition of it: it is upon the account of the obedidience of Christ as the meritorious cause, and upon the account of their Faith as the condition of it: their obedience is indeed the way wherein they do receive it, and so it is a recompence of it: they have heaven in a way of obedience, and heaven will make an abundant recompence for all their labour and travail: the people of God take pains, undergo hardships, undergo many temptations and conflicts in a way of obedience; but heaven will make amends for all, and abundantly recompence all their trouble in the way of serving God: at the end of their journey they shall receive heaven, and that will make amends for all their trouble.