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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. Because Christ in fulfilling of the law for us, ha• purchased life for us in heaven: Christ has purchase• heaven for us, Eph. 1.14. it is called a purchased possession, and he did it by performing the righteousness […] the Law for us: it is by making of us righteous tha• we come to have a title unto eternal life, Rom 5.21. Grace reigns by righteousness unto eternal life by Jesu• Christ our Lord.
2. Because Christ in fulfilling of the law for us, ha• purchased life for us in heaven: Christ has purchase• heaven for us, Eph. 1.14. it is called a purchased possesion, and he did it by performing the righteousness 〈…〉 the Law for us: it is by making of us righteous tha• we come to have a title unto eternal life, Rom 5.21. Grace reigns by righteousness unto eternal life by Jesu• Christ our Lord.
3. Because Christ tells the young man in the Gospel (that enquired of him what good thing he should do that he might have eternal life) that if he woul• enter into life he should keep the Commandments, Mat. 19.16, 17. where we may mind, that the life enquired after by the young man, was a life in Heaven; and tha• Christ in this answer is leading of him to the covenant of works, upon a design to convince him of his inability to keep it.