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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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1. Because hell, where the devils are, is the reward of disobedience by the covenant of work•, therefore heaven, where the holy angels are, is the reward of Obedience: it is meet the rewards should be proportionable: ⟨p. 34⟩I know it is answered, that sin deserv• evil at Gods hands, but holiness which is due unto Go• does not deserve any rewards; but this does not ta•• off the force of the argument: for it is by the La• that sin merits as well as holiness: and hence w•cke• men are punished only for such sins as they commit […] this life, 2 Cor. 5.10. and there is as much goodne•• in holiness, as evil in sin; and it is a meet thing th•• God should bestow as much good in a way of obedience, as he inflicts evil in a way of disobedience: b••sides the Law expresses the punishment of sin by dea•• Rom. 6.23. The wages of sin is death: and the rewa•• of obedience by life. Gal. 3 12. the man that doth them shall live by them: therefore it is a life directly opposite to that death, a life that contains as much good […] it, as that death doth evil: those terms do mutuall• explain one the other.
1. Because hell, where the devils are, is the reward of disobedience by the covenant of work•, therefore heaven, where the holy angels are, is the reward of Obedience: it is meet the rewards should be proportionable: