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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 8
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.
God could love sinners freely, there was no possibility of purchasing that, that was too great a thing to be purchased.
Christ procured the effects of Gods love, but not the love it self. Gods love was the cause of Christs coming, not the effect thereof: but the self-righteous man imagines a virtue in his own righteousness to draw the heart of God to him; and engage the love of God.
Christ procured the effects of Gods love, but not the love it self. Gods love was the cause of Christs coming, not the effect thereof: but the self-righteous man imagines a vertue in his own righteousness to draw the heart of God to him; and engage the love of God.
2. Hence they think their own righteousness does make mends for their miscarriages: that they have made an atonement for themselves for their former sins▪ they think their repentance makes up that breach that sin had made, and that out of a respect unto that God forgets what they have done amiss: they imagine that there is a reconciling virtue in their reformations and good services, that they satisfy God for what has been past.
2. Hence they think their own righteousness does make mends for their miscarriages: that they have made an ••onement for themselves for their former sins▪ they think their repentance makes up that breach that sin had made, and that out of a respect unto that God forgets what they have done amiss: they imagine that there is a reconciling vertue in their reformations and good services, that they satisfie God for what has been past.