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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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Our Inveterate Adversary hath had experience for more than Five Thousand Years to teach him, That no Animosities are so fierce and strong as those that are produced by Differences in Religion; Thunderings and Lightnings, and Earthquakes arise with most of Tempest, from the Fire of the Altar; because, in Controversies, of Divinity ▪ men are easily persuaded that they are Engaged in the cause of the Deity, wherein 'tis a Good-Thing for a man to be zealously affected ▪ But we in these Ends of the Earth have been taught by an experience more than Fifty Years Old, That the Minds of men are never more prone ⟨image ?⟩unto unjustifiable Alienations, than when their Differences in Religion turn upon the point of, A Sinners Justification before God: Strange! Nothing raises more sinful Variance, and Prejudice, in men, towards one another, than their Opinions about the Doctrines of a Sinners Reconciliation unto God; and the Controversies, about the Methods of our coming to a Peace with Heaven, cause most of Strife upon Earth.
Our Inveterate Adversary hath had experience for more than Five Thousand Years to teach him, That no Animosities are so fierce and strong as those that are produced by Differences in Religion; Thundrings and Lightnings, and Earthquak•s arise with most of Tempest, from the Fire of the Altar; because, in Controversies, of Divinity ▪ men are easily perswaded that they are Engaged in the cause of the Deity, wherein 'tis a Good-Thing for a man to be zealously affected ▪ But we in these Ends of the Earth have been taught by an experience more than Fifty Years Old, That the Minds of men are never more prone ⟨image ?⟩unto unjustifiable Alienations, than when their Differences in Religion turn upon the point of, A Sinners Justification before God: Strange! Nothing raises more sinful Variance, and Prejudice, in men, towards one another, than their Opinions about the Doctrines of a Sinners Reconciliation unto God; and the Controversies, about the Methods of our coming to a Peace with Heaven, cause most of Strife upon Earth.