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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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I crave leave to propound another Instance▪ Whereas it is clear in Scripture, that the same Righteousness of Christ which in the Text insisted on, is called the Righteousness of God, in other Scriptures it is called the Righteousness of Faith, and that Faith is accounted to us for Righteousness, and its expressly said, We are Justified by Faith: Now, the Jewish, the Popish, the Arminian and Socinian gl•ss•s on such Scriptures being rejected as Erroneous; I have observed many years ago, in the Sermons and Writings of our Ancient Holy and Practical Divines, that lived in the Age before us, though they agreed in the same Truth for the main, yet they have gone divers ways in giving the sense of the fore-named Scripture Expressions: As now, that▪
I crave leave to propound another Instance▪ Whereas it is clear in Scripture, that the same Righteousness of Christ which in the Text insisted on, is called the Righteousness of God, in other Scriptures it is called the Righteousness of Faith, and that Faith is accounted to us for Righteousness, and its expressly said, We are Justified by Faith: Now, the Jewish, the Popish, the Arminian and Socinian gl•ss•s on such Scriptures being rejected as Erroneous; I have observed many years ago, in the Sermons and Writings of our Ancient Holy and Practical Divines, that lived in the Age before us, though they agreed in the same Truth for the main, yet they have gone divers ways in giving the sense of the fore-named Scripture Expressi•ns: As now, that▪
Faith is accounted to Believers for Righteousness.