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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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To the Reader.
THAT Celebrated saying of Luther's, That the Doctrine of Justification, is, Articulus stantis aut cadentis Ecclesiae, ha's been found most true. It is the Crisis, the chief indication of the Churches state, which will Stand or Fall with this Truth. The Churches in Galatia Embraced another Gospel, when they let go this principle, That we are Justified by the alone Righteousness of Christ apprehended by Faith. The parting with this Truth has also proved fatal to the Romish Synagogue: Without doubt Paul was acted by a Prophetic Spirit, when in his Epistle to the Romans, he did so largely insist on this Subject.
THAT Celebrated saying of Luthers, That the Doctrine of Justification, is, Articulus stantis aut cadentis Ecclesiae, ha's been found most true. It is the Crisis, the chief indication of the Churches state, which will Stand or Fall with this Truth. The Churches in Galatia Embraced another Gospel, when they let go this principle, That we are Justified by the alone Righteousness of Christ apprehended by Faith. The parting with this Truth has also proved fatal to the Romish Synagogue: Without doubt Paul was acted by a Prophetick Spirit, when in his Epistle to the Romans, he did so largely insist on this Subject.
We esteem the Lutheran Churches to be in several points Heterodox: And in some things (especially in the Doctrine of Free-Will) in which Luther himself (who was a great Champion) did strenuously assert the Truth, they have deserted him. Nevertheless, the Substance and Vitals of Religion have been preserved among them by their steadfast profession of the Gospel, as to this Important Article. I am sorry to