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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 10
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How can the Righteousness of Christ make God love me? I have no righteousness of my own to draw the heart of God to me, and I don't see how the righteousness of Christ can procure the love of God for me.
Answer,
1. The use of the righteousness of Christ is to answer the demands of the Law for you: the Law laid an objection in the way of your salvation, which must be removed before you could be saved: the Law would not admit of your salvation, without a complete righteousness: and the righteousness of Christ does remove this objection: this is as much as the Law does demand as the condition of life; the righteousness of Christ makes you an heir of blessedness according to the law: this removes the guilt of sin, this supplies your want of worthiness▪ so that hereby […] way is made for your salvation without any injustice, Rom. 3.26. there needs nothing more to make your salvation free from any legal exceptions.
1. The use of the righteousness of Christ is to answer the demands of the Law for you: the Law laid an objection in the way of your salvation, which must be removed before you could be saved: the Law would not admit of your salvation, without a compl•at righteousness: and the righteousness of Christ does remove this objection: this is as much as the Law does demand as the condition of life; the righteousness of Christ makes you an heir of blessedness according to the law: this removes the guilt of sin, this supplies your want of worthiness▪ so that hereb• way is made for your salvation without any injustice,