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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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That man ha's no Faith in him, on whom this Thought ha's not a very Constraining Efficacy.
Fourthly. A Sanctified Heart, in this World, is a needful Qualification and Preparation, for a Glorified State in another. There is no passing into the Holy Heavens, without being, as 'tis Expressed in Col. 1.12. Made meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light. But without a Changed Heart, a New Heart, and an Holy Heart, a man is not made meet for that Holy Inheritance. None but the Pure in Heart, ⟨p. 66⟩are fit for the Beatific Sight of the most Holy God. The Holy Employments, and the Holy Enjoyments of the Heavenly World, would be for ever distasteful unto us, if we should not carry Holy Hearts into that World. Except God here, Work us for that Self-Same Thing, every Thing in Heaven will be disagreeable unto us. The Unclean may not enter into the Temple of God. The Satisfactions of Heaven, must here first be Inlaid into the very Frame of our Souls, or else they will never Satisfy us. Were an Unsanctified man, on that Holy Mountain, he would not be able to say, 'Tis Good to be here! Heaven it self, would be rather a Torment, than a Content, unto an Unsanctified Soul. 'Tis a Solemn, and a certain Admonition▪ in Heb. 12.14. Without Holiness no man shall see the Lord. Though we shall not Go to Heaven, For our Good Works, we cannot Go to▪ Heaven Without them.
Fourthly. A Sanctifyed Heart, in this World, is a needful Qualification and Preparation, for a Glorifyed State in another. There is no passing into the Holy Heavens, without being, as 'tis Expressed in Col. 1.12. Made meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light. But without a Chang'd Heart, a New Heart, and an Holy Heart, a man is not made meet for that Holy Inheritance. None but the Pure in Heart,