The Four Last Things, Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell
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ISBN13: 9780217759670
Paperback|9780217759670
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. How the death of Christ frees us from the tormenting fear of death. By dying he paid uur ransom to the injured justice of God; and deprives Satan of the legal power he. had over us. His death is our redemption from the curse of death. It makes death a blessed advantage to believers. The Jiap- piness obtained by death unfolded. It frees th, - saints from afflicting evils, and sin the cause of them. The highest positive good obtained by death. I NOW come to show bow the death of Christ frees us from the tormenting fear of death. And here we are to consider that sin, Satan and death, are enemies in combination against man in his mortal state; and the destructive power of Satan, and death, is from sin. When man renounced his Creator and natural Lord, he was judicially given up to Satau as the executioner of vengeance, and to the power of death. Such is the order, rather than the Jonfusion in the world by sin. The empire of Satau and death is built on the ruins of our innocence. Now the Son of God came from his throne in heaven to deliver us; and there are two ways of obtaining freedom from captivity, by ransom or by DEATH.] Fear of Death removed. CHAP. III. power and rescue, so in both respects our deliverance from bondage to those capital enemies is ascribed to the death of Christ. It is called our ransom, which properly refers to a state of captivity. 'There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all.' 1 Tim. ii. 6. His life was the full price of our liberty and salvation. God does not pardon sin, and release from punishment by a pure absolute act of his will and authority, as a creditor forgives a debtor; but in such away as to preserve the rights of justice inviolate. Therefore when man wa...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217759670 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021775967X |
| Weight | 0.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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