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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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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.
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 covenan• of works, upon a design to convince him of his inabil•ty to keep it.
4. Because the Apostle Paul, gives that as the reason, that men cannot be justified by the Law, because they are sinners, Rom. 8.3. & 3.20. the Legallists that Paul disputes against expected eternal life in heaven by their works▪ yet in all his disputes with them he neve• tells them that the covenant of works does not promise any such thing: if he could have told them so, that would clearly have cut off all their hopes: but he still shows that they can't have Salvation by the Law upon this account, because they can't fulfil it; yea he plainly implies that the reward by the Law and Gospel are the same, but the way of obtaining it is different,