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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 a Sin is not at all the less a Sin, but it is rather an aggravated Sin, for being done by One whom the Lord Jesus Christ hath Justified from Sin. When the Lord hath showed thee, O man, what is the Good Thing, even His Messiah, and His Righteousness, He then Requires thee to Glorify ▪ His Messiah, by Doing Justly, by Loving Mercy, by Walking •umbly with thy God.
And a Sin is not at all the less a Sin, but it is rather an aggravated Sin, for being done by One whom the Lord Jesus Christ hath Justified from Sin. When the Lord hath shewed thee, O man, what is the Good Thing, even His Messiah, and His Righteousness, He then Requires thee to Glorify ▪ His Messiah, by Doing Justly, by Loving Mercy, by Walking •umbly with thy God.
Secondly. Our Good Works, or Sincere Essays, to observe the Moral Law, are necessary to Justify that Faith in the Righteousness of God, by which our persons are Justified. Every Jewel ha's a Counterfeit. And, How shall we know that our Faith in the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ for our Justification, is not a Counterfeit? Now the Marks of a Justifying Faith are the Works, whereto a Believer is thereby disposed. Says the Apostle, in Jam 2 20 Wilt thou know, O Vain man, that Faith without Works is Dead? Christians, a Workless Faith is a Worthless Faith ▪ It is an Incautious and a Dangerous passage, that I have Read; Men are too apt to think their Peace depends on the subduing of Sin. If their Sins be subdued, then they may have Peace, and if they cannot be subdued, then no Peace; Let subduing of Sin alone for Peace. But, wilt thou know, O Vain Antinomian? If thy Faith do not subdue thy Sin, it is a False Faith; And, if a man go to Bless himself, saying, I shall have Peace, though Sin remain unsubdued in him, There is no Peace, saith my God, unto that Wicked man. We are to Try our Justifying Faith, by This; Is our Sin subdued by this Faith? And, through Faith are we always abounding in the works of the Lord?