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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 may thus Conceive of it.
The God of Heaven ha's in the Gospel, Required us to Adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour, by Endeavouring utmost Obedience to that Law, which our Saviour hath answered for us. And He ha's Threatened our Grosser Neglects of that Obedience, not with Eternal Confusion, as He did in the Law; but with Paternal Correction. The Paternal Correction whereto our Scandalous Faults, will now Expose us, lies in a Variety and Severity of Divine Judgments, to be dispensed in this World unto us. The Divine Judgments, under which we may fall, by our Falls into Rebellion against our Heavenly Father, are both Spiritual and Temporal ▪ The Spiritual Judgments, which Godly men may by their Sins bring upon themselves, are Internal Desertions, ⟨p. 69⟩wherein the Spirit of God withholds Influences of Grace and Joy from them. The Temporal Judgments, are External Afflictions; And especially such as carry Notable Retaliations in them. One End of these Judgments, is to Amend, and Reform, and cure the miscarriages of Godly Men, and promote a Due Repentance in them: And yet another End of these Judgments, is, to vindicate the Holiness of our Lord Jesus Christ, and make all that saw the Miscarriages of those Godly men, to see that the Lord of the Holy Angels, will allow no such Things, in any that belong unto Him. When Godly men, have by any piece of notorious Ungodliness, Laid themselves open to these Judgments of God, their way to be Saved from the Judgments, is to plead the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ over again, and thereon penitently to Confess and Forsake all that has been Amiss. They that already have what we may call, A Legal Pardon, may yet want, what we may call, A Gospel Pardon, or the dissolution of their obligation to suffer the Judgments of God upon Earth; and by penitent Prayer, they are every day to seek such a Pardon. These Thoughts, are all over Countenanced in the Oracles of God. Wherefore, Let those that have Believed unto Righteousness, yet learn to Pass the Time of their Sojourning here in Fear.
The God of Heaven ha's in the Gospel, Required us to Adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour, by Endeavouring utmost Obedience to that Law, which our Saviour hath answered for us. And He ha's Threatned our Grosser Neglects of that Obedience, not with Eternal Confusion, as He did in the Law; but with Paternal Correction. The Paternal Correction whereto our Scandalous Faults, will now Expose us, lies in a Variety and Severity of Divine Judgments, to be dispens'd in this World unto us. The Divine Judgments, under which we may fall, by our Falls into Rebellion against our Heavenly Father, are both Spiritual and Temporal The Spiritual Judgments, which Godly men may by their Sins bring upon themselves, are Internal Desertions,