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The everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of justification by the righteousness of God; as 'tis…
The everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of justification by the righteousness of God; as 'tis held and preached in the churches of New-England: expressed in a brief discourse on that important article; made at Boston in the year, 1699. / By Cotton Mather. ; And, asserted with the attestations, of several Reverend and eminent persons, now most considerable in those churches.The everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of justification by the righteousness of God; as 'tis held and preach'd in the churches of New-England: expressed in a brief discourse on that important article; made at Boston in the year, 1699. / By Cotton Mather. ; And, asserted with the attestations, of several Reverend and eminent persons, now most considerable in those churches.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nicholas Buttolph, 1700
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They that of old, were for Justification by their own Righteousness, did thus manage it, in Jer. 7.•, 10. They would Steal, and Commit Adultery, and come and stand before God, in His House, and say, we are Delivered (that is to say, Discharged, Purified, Forgiven) to do all these Abominations. They would come with some Devotions and Sacrifices into the House of God, after their Abominations, and they counted themselves Discharged from the Old Score; they might run on upon a New Score of Abominations, till they Renewed their Sacrifices. This is the very Spirit of Self-Righteous Persons.
They that of old, were for Justification by their own Righteousness, did thus manage it, in Jer. 7.•, 10. They would Steal, and Commit Adultery, and come and stand before God, in His House, and say, we are Delivered (that is to say, Discharged, Purified, Forgiven) to do all these Abominations. They would come with some Devotions and Sacrifices into the House of God, after their Abominations, and they counted themselves Discharged from the Old Score; they might run on upon a New Score of Abominations, till they Renew'd their Sacrifies. This is the very Spirit of Self-Righteous Persons.
And are none of them Detected yet? A Fifth Question then shall fall upon us.
Fifthly. Deal Thoroughly: After what manner is it, that you come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for His Righteousness! A man may Establish his own Righteousness, even then when ⟨p. 38⟩