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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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Dedication: The Dedication. TO The Reverend Ministers Of the Gospel in London, Sometimes Honoured w…
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And now▪ Your Friends on this Side of the Atlantic, are with Grief making Jobs Reflection; The thing which I greatly Feared is come! ⟨image ?⟩With a very condolent Sympathy, we feel the Blows, which the Two Sticks, that we thought made One, are giving to one another. We flattered our selves with Hopes, of seeing the Witnesses of our Lord Jesus Christ Risen out of their Graves, when we still see those very Things upon them, that made our Apostle cry out, Nonne Cadaverosi estis? We have Heard, and Read, with no little astonishment, the Contests of United Brethren, and the efficacious Attempts of Satan to break their Union; Unable therefore to forbear thereupon the Lamentations of the Great Austin upon the Quarrels between Jerome, and Ruffin, Vae mundo a scandalis; Ecce prorsus impletur, quod veritas ait, Quoniam abundavit Iniquitas, frigescet […] multorum. Quis Amicus non formidetur quasi futurus inimicus, si potuit inter Hieronymum […] Ruffinum hec quod plangimus […]! O misera et miseranda Conditio!
And now▪ Your Friends on this Side of the Atlantick, are with Grief making Jobs Reflection; The thing which I greatly Feared is come! ⟨image ?⟩With a very condolent Sympathy, we feel the Blowes, which the Two Sticks, that we thought made One, are giving to one another. We flattered our selves with Hopes, of seeing the Witnesses of our Lord Jesus Christ Risen out of their Graves, when we still see those very Things upon them, that made our Apostle cry out, Nonne Cadaverosi estis? We have Heard, and Read, with no little astonishment, the Contests of Ʋnited Brethren, and the efficacious Attempts of Satan to break their Ʋnion; Unable therefore to forbear thereupon the Lamentations of the Great Austin upon the Quarrels between Jerom, and Ruffin, Vae mundo a scandalis; Ecce prorsus impletur, quod veritas ait, Quoniam abundavit Iniquitas, frigescet 〈…〉 multorum. Quis Amicus non formidetur quasi futurus inimicus, si potuit inter Hieronymum 〈…〉 Ruffinum hec quod plangimus 〈…〉! O misera et miseranda Conditio!