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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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2. There is no need that the righteousness of Christ should procure the love of God for you: men are troubling of themselves in vain, when they are seeking a cause of Gods love out of himself: Gods love is the first cause of mans salvation, and has no dependence upon any thing: it is impossible that any thing out of God should move God to love you, and there is sufficiency of grace in God to love you, tho' there be no external cause to mo•e him: God loves men freely, Hos. 14.4. he can have mercy upon you because he will, the love that God has to the angels of heaven is not built upon their righteousness, but is the foundation of their righteousness, because they were elect angels, therefore they continued holy angels; and the love of God to Abraham and all his Saints does not depend upon their righteousness nor upon the Righteousness of Christ; indeed the love of God was the reason why Christ was sent to work out righteousness for us, Joh. 4.10. he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
2. There is no need that the righteousness of Christ should procure the love of God for you: men are troubling of themselves in vain, when they are seeking a cause of Gods love out of himself: Gods love is the first cause of mans salvation, and has no dependance upon any thing: it is impossible that any thing out of God should move God to love you, and there is sufficiency of grace in God to love you, tho' there be no exte••al cause to mo•e him: God loves men freely, Hos. 14.4. he can have mercy upon you because he will, the love that God has to the angels of heaven is not built upon their righteousness, but is the foundation of their righteousness, because they were elect angels, therefore they continued holy angels; and the love of God to Abraham and all his Saints does not depend upon their righteousness nor upon the Righteousness of Christ; indeed the love of God was the reason why Christ was sent to work out righteousness for us, Joh. 4.10. he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.