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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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You are to know, That upon Faith in the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, a Sinner is Perfectly Justified. The Law of God, no more binds him over, to suffer the Wrath and Curse of God, which is Threatened in the Law. The Curse of God, no more can take hold upon him; and he ha's a Formal Pardon of all his Former Sins, with a Virtual Pardon of all his Future Sins. The Act of God, as a Judge, in thus Justifying of a Believing Sinner, Admits of no Repetition, and ⟨p. 68⟩no Intercision. Let a Sinner be once Justified, and Absolved from the Sentence of the Law upon him, he is then wholly so, and ever so.
You are to know, That upon Faith in the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, a Sinner is Perfectly Justifyed. The Law of God, no more binds him over, to suffer the Wrath and Curse of God, which is Threatned in the Law. The Curse of God, no more can take hold upon him; and he ha's a Formal Pardon of all his Former Sins, with a Vertual Pardon of all his Future Sins. The Act of God, as a Judge, in thus Justifying of a Believing Sinner, Admits of no Repetition, and ⟨p. 68⟩no Intercision. Let a Sinner be once Justified, and Absolved from the Sentence of the Law upon him, he is then wholly so, and ever so.
But for all this, Let it not seem Strange unto you, if I tell you, That there is what we may call, a Filial Guilt, wherein a Justified Person may become obnoxious to the Fatherly Wrath of God. It is an unsound Position in certain Sermons too much cried up, among Injudicious Readers; Though a Believer, after he be a Believer, do Sin often, yet God no longer Stands Offended and Displeased with him.
But for all this, Let it not seem Strange unto you, if I tell you, That there is what we may call, a Filial Guilt, wherein a Justifyed Person may become obnoxious to the Fatherly Wrath of God. It is an unsound Position in certain Sermons too much cryed up, among Injudicious Readers; Though a Believer, after he be a Believer, do Sin often, yet God no longer Stands Offended and Displeased with him.