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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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But how marvellous a thing is it, that your ⟨image ?⟩Contentions do continue, after one side hath gone so far as to tell the other, If you attentively and deliberately weigh, what we […] asserted on the Article of Justification, we are Confident, it will Evidently and Undeniably appear, that we perfectly agree with our Brethren, in the Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, even in the very phrases, and modes of Expression?
But how marvellous a thing is it, that your ⟨image ?⟩Contentions do continue, after one side hath gone so far as to tell the other, If you attentively and deliberately weigh, what we 〈…〉 asserted on the Article of Justification, we are Confident, it will Evidently and Ʋndeniably appear, that we perfectly agree with our Brethren, in the Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, even in the very phrases, and modes of Expression?
Honoured Sirs; We cannot conceal from you, some of those Afflictive Resentments, that your Friends as far off as America, have had upon your Contentions. We have Mourned, as often as we have Thought, how much the Dove like Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, hath been distasted by the over-flowings of Gall, that we have seen, in some Disputations; and Grieved by your Bitterness towards one another. That Spirit, in You, (O ye Followers the Lamb,) it Lusteth AGAINST Envy: You need not be told, That Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, and Envyings, are Works of the Flesh, to be mortified by that Spirit. We have Mourned, when we have Thought, What Scandal, and what Scoffing, hath been afforded unto our Common Enemies, by the Treats that you have given unto one another; They have had you greatly in Derision: because you have declined from the Law of the Lord, whose Dying Prayer, and Charge it was, That we should Love one another. But we Remember with Horror, what horrible Storms quickly came upon the Primitive Christians, when the Feuds among them, were such as to be ⟨image ?⟩