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The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of…
The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament. Partly, to confirm those who do possess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs; and, bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdom of the just; and so, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines of quotation]
printed by B. Green, 1699
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.
A. No. It is written, Eccl. 7.20. There is not a Righteous man upon Earth, that doth Good, and Sinneth not.
Q. If a man be not Righteous, but Wicked, is not the Everlasting Wrath of God in Hell, the portion of that man?
A. Yes. It is written, Psal. 9.17. The wicked shall be turned into Hell.
Q. Did God Promise, that His Messiah, should be Born of a Woman, and suffer Bruises, to deliver His people from the mischiefs done by Satan unto them, in their Fall?
A. Yes. It is written Gen 3.15. The Lord God said unto the Serpent, I will put Enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed; It shall Bruise thy Head, and Thou shalt Bruise his Heel.