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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
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2. The law requires that the curse must be executed for sin: the Law pronounceth the sinners accursed, Gal. 3.20. cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, that are written in the book of the Law to do them ▪ the Law pronounceth the sinner an heir of death, Rom 6.23. and it is a most vain imagination, for man to think the Law will take up with obedience instead of the sufferings of death: disobedience brings the curse, but obedience cannot remove it; obedience would have prevented the curse, but obedience cannot remove it; the Law makes no mention of obedience for satisfaction, obedience is a thing of another kind then the satisfaction which the Law demands: the active obedience of Christ could not satisfy for our sins: and how can men think that that obedience which was due to the Law, if we had never sinned, can satisfy for our sins, that the paying of that natural debt which we were born under, will also satisfy this new debt which we have contracted by sin: especially when our obedience is so defective ⟨p. 197⟩that in that we are again deserving damnation.
2. The law requires that the curse must be executed for sin: the Law pronounceth the sinners accursed, Gal. 3.20. cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, that are written in the book of the Law to do them ▪ the Law pronounceth the sinner an heir of death, Rom 6.23. and it is a most vain imagination, for man to think the Law will take up with obedience instead of the sufferings of death: disobedience brings the curse, but obedience cannot remove it; obedience would have prevented the curse, but obedience cannot remove it; the Law makes no mention of obedience for satisfaction, obedience is a thing of another kind then the satisfaction which the Law demands: the active obedience of Christ could not satisfie for our sins: and how can men think that that obedience which was due to the Law, if we had never sinned, can satisfie for our sins, that the paying of that natural debt which we were born under, will also satisfie this new debt which we have contracted by sin: especially when our obedience is so defectctive ⟨p. 197⟩