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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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And it is sufficient for us if we have the righteousness of the Law; there is no danger of our miscarrying, if we have that righteousness: the sincerity of the angels in heaven is, that they have the righteousness of the Law: and that is a sufficient sincerity, for us if we have the righteousness of the Law: if we have the righteousness of the Law, then we are not liable to the curse of the Law, we are not threatened by the Law, Justice is not provoked with us; the condemnation of the Law can take no hold upon us: the Law has nothing to object against our salvation: that soul that has the righteousness of the Law, is out of the reach of the threatenings of the law, where the demand of the Law is answered, the Law finds no fault; the Law curses only for want of perfect obedience, Gal. 3.10. yea moreover where there is the righteousness of the Law, God has bound himself to give eternal life; such persons are heirs of life▪ ⟨p. 26⟩according to the promise of the Law, the law declare• them h••rs of life, Gal. 3.12. the man that doth them, shall live in them.
And it is sufficient for us if we have the righteousness of the Law; there is no danger of our miscarrying, if we have that righteousness: the sincerity of the angels in heaven is, that they have the righteousness of the Law: and that is a sufficient sincerity, for us if we have the righteousness of the Law: if we have the righteousness of the Law, then we are not liable to the curse of the Law, we are not threatned by the Law, Justice is not provoked with us; the condemnation of the Law can take no hold upon us: the Law has nothing to object against our salvation: that soul that has the righteousness of the Law, is out of the reach of the threatnings of the law, where the demand of the Law is answered, the Law finds no fault; the Law curses only for want of perfect obedience, Gal. 3.10. yea moreover where there is the righteousness of the Law, God has bound himself to give eternal life; such persons are heirs of life▪