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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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Wherefore, being very sure of their Concur rence to such Wishes, humbly Take This Way, ⟨image ?⟩My Reverend Fathers and Brethren, to Solicit your Second Thoughts upon your Controversies, and your laying aside all Strife ▪ but that of Love, May the Souls of your American Brethren, that ardently Pray and Long for it, be Refreshed, with the Melody of your Concord; and may all the Symptoms of Displeasure in you against one another, be forever so extinguished, that there may therein be no Tokens of Heavens being Displeased at both. May there be so little of any •arring like that between Chrysostom and Epiphanius, or like that between Peter and Meletius, among any of you, that no man may Set at nought his Brother, but all may follow after the Things that make for Peace, and add unto their Godliness, Brotherly-kindness. May you, Walk together in those Greater Things, wherein you are all Agreed, and in the Lesser ones, wherein you are not so, yet Value one another, as we afar off do all of you, and not count the Virtues and the Talents of the most Worthy men, to be Little worth, Except they violently Espouse a Party.
Wherefore, being very sure of their Concu• rence to such Wishes, •humbly Take This Way, ⟨image ?⟩My Reverend Fathers and Brethren, to Sollicit your Second Thoughts upon your Controversies, and your laying aside all Strife ▪ but that of Love, May the Souls of your American Brethren, that ardently Pray and Long for it, be Refreshed, with the Melody of your Concord; and may all the Symptoms of Displeasure in you against one another, be forever so extinguished, that there may therein be no Tokens of Heavens being Displeased at both. May there be so little of any •arring like that between Chr•sostom and Epiphanius, or like that between Peter and Meletius, among any of you, that no man may Set at nought his Brother, but all may follow after the Things that make for Peace, and add unto their God•iness, Btherly-kindness. May you, Walk together in those Greater Things, wherein you are all Agreed, and in the Lesser ones, wherein you are not so, yet Value one another, as we afar off do all of you, and not count the Vertues and the Talents of the most Worthy men, to be Little worth, Except they violently Espouse a Party.