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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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THE mind of man, is never Exercised about a more Important CASE than This; How may Sinful Man be made Righteous? And the Mind of every Reasonable man must by Thoughts upon this Important CASE, be often cast into Agonies. God, that forms the Spirit of man within him, hath formed in the Spirit of man a Conscience, which, in all men that are not Stupefied and Brutified with Senseless wickedness, does with distress think upon ⟨p. 2⟩that Great Question, How may I arrive to a Righteousness, that may Entitle me unto the Favours •• God? Unto this Great Question of every Awakened mind, there is a Satisfying Answer given in the Gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST; and there is no little Demonstration and Confirmation of the Christian Religion in this Glory of the Gospel, That no Religion else, gives an Answer to it, that will in any measure Satisfy. The Superstitions Practised among the ungospellized Nations of the Earth, to obtain a Righteousness before God, are indeed so very Ridiculous, that no part of mankind, except strangely Enchanted, could be contented with such l•e and Fu•il Practices. The very Recital of them, would be a Comedy. But the methods of obtaining Righteousness, prescribed in the Christian Religion, are full of an evidently Glorious Majesty: There is nothing in them, unworthy of a God.
THE mind of man, is never Exercised about a more Impor••nt CASE than This; How may Sinful Man be made Righteous? And the Mind of every Reasonable man must by Thoughts upon this Important CASE, be often cast into Agonies. God, that forms the Spirit of man within him, hath formed in the Spirit of man a Conscience, which, in all men that are not Stup•fied and Brutified with Senseless wickedness, does with distress think upon ⟨p. 2⟩that Great Question, How may I arrive to a Righteousness, that may Entitle me unto the Favours •• God? Unto this Great Question of every Awakened mind, there is a Satisfying Answer given in the Gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST; and there is no little Demonstration and Confirmation of the Christian Religion in this Glory of the Gospel, That no Religion else, gives an Answer to it, that will in any measure Satisfy. The Superstitions Practised among the ungospellized Nations of the Earth, to obtain a Righteousness before God, are indeed so very Ridiculous, that no part of mankind, except strangely Enchanted, could be contented with such le and Fuil Practices. The very Recital of them, would be a Comedy. But the methods of obtaining Righteousness, prescribed in the Christian Religion, are full of an evidently Glorious Majesty: There is nothing in them, unworthy of a God.