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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.
Gods name is as much vindicated, and there i• as full a testimony given to the holiness of Go• by the sufferings of a surety, as if the sinner ha• suffered in his own person, there is no probability that Adam did at first understand this interpretation o• the curse, it was a secret that God kept in his ow• breast, until there was occasion for its publication […] indeed from the first publishing of the Law, Go• showed that a public person might perform the preceptive part of it for others: and by failing therein, might expose others with himself unto ruin as Adam did. Which shows it also to be very fair, that a public person may suffer for us: if a public person may ruin us, why may not a public person recover us: but we have no grounds to conclude that Ada• knew any thing of the possibility of salvation in ca•• he sinned, but God after the Fall revealed it unt• him.
Gods name is as much vindicated, and there i• as full a testimony given to the holiness of Go• by the sufferings of a surety, as if the sinner ha• suffered in his own person, there is no probabilit• that Adam did at first understand this interpretation o• the curse, it was a secret that God kept in his ow• breast, until there was occasion for its publication 〈…〉 indeed from the first publishing of the Law, Go• shewed that a publick person might perform the preceptive part of it for others: and by failing therein, might expose others with himself unto ruine as Adam did. Which shews it also to be very fair, that a publick person may suffer for us: if a publick person may ruine us, why may not a publick person recove• us: but we have no grounds to conclude that Ada knew any thing of the possibility of salvation in ca he sinned, but God after the Fall revealed it unt him.