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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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And then finally, Profess, Try whether you cannot with a Triumphing Soul profess, That you do Believe in the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, alone. God now demands of you, Whether you do indeed Believe on His Righteousness? Try, O Try, whether you can't make this Answer to the Demand, in Mar 9 17 Lord, I believe, Help thou my Unbelief. Place thy self, O Sinner, before the Judgment Seat of that Holy God, unto whose Judgment thy Sin hath made thee obnoxious: and let His Infinite Holiness, fill thee with Astonishment. See that Holy God passing a Terrible […] of Eternal Death upon thee; and Hea• Him demanding of thee, what thou hast to say, Why this Doom should not be fulfilled, and this Death inflicted, or, why thou shouldest be accepted into His Favour! Justifying Faith is no where found, but in the Soul of a Convinced Sinner, beholding himself by the Law of God, a Condemned Sinner, and pursuing his Deliverance by the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ from the Condition, which he is by the Law of God cast into. Faith is not understood, by them who describe it, altogether without respect unto the previous work of the Law on the Conscience of a Sinner. Now having felt this work, Then let thy Reply be, Lord, I have nothing, nothing at all to plead, but only the Righteousness of my Lord Jesus Christ▪ That Righteousness has answered thy Law in all things Thy Grace hath made me an offer of that Righteousness: In that ⟨p. 54⟩Righteousness therefore I place all my Hope for ever-more.
And then finally, Profess, Try whether you cannot with a Triumphing Soul profess, That you do Believe in the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, alone. God now demands of you, Whether you do indeed Believe on His Righteousness? Try, O Try, whether you can't make this Answer to the Demand, in Mar 9 17 Lord, I believe, Help thou my Ʋnbelief. Place thy self, O Sinner, before the Judgment Seat of that Holy God, unto whose Judgment thy Sin hath made thee obnoxious: and let His Infinite Holiness, fill thee with Astonishment. See that Holy God passing a Terrible 〈…〉 of Eternal Death upon thee; and Hea• Him demanding of thee, what thou hast to say, Why this Doom should not be fulfilled, and this Death inflicted, or, why thou shouldest be accepted into His Favour! Justifying Faith is no where found, but in the Soul of a Convinced Sinner, beholding himself by the Law of God, a Condemned Sinner, and pursuing his Dliverance by the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ from the Condition, which he is by the Law of God cast into. Faith is not understood, by them who describe it, altogether without respect unto the previous work of the Law on the Conscience of a Sinner. Now having felt this work, Then let thy Reply be, Lord, I have nothing, nothing at all to plead, but only the Righteousness of my Lord Jesus Christ That Righteousness has answered thy Law in all things Thy Grace hath made me an offer of that Righteousness: In that