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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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That Renowned Preacher of the Gospel, our Apostle Paul, therefore tells the Church of Rome, That he is not Ashamed of Preaching the Gospel. I pray, Sir; Why not? He Replye•, Because 'tis that which the Salvation of Sinful man, will Turn upon his Receiving, or his Rejecting of: And this is manifest, because the only way, how Sinful man may attain unto Righteousness is therein Revealed.
The Righteousness for Sinful man Revealed in the Gospel, is called, The Righteousness of God; And when it is here said, That it is Revealed from Faith to Faith, 'tis an Expression full of Emph• tical ⟨p. 3⟩and Remarkable Significations. But the Sum of them all is, That by Faith, we Apprehend this Righteousness: And that there is to Faith Revealed, the Righteousness, wherein by Faith we are Interested
In the Epistle to the Church of Rome, the Article of a Sinners being made Righteous through Faith in the Righteousness of God, is by the Spirit of Prophecy most agreeably insisted on: The Holy Spirit foresaw, that the Church of Rome, would fall into an horrible Apostasy, which would very much lie in their confounding that very Article. 'Tis an Article in which lies the very Marrow of the Gospel! Give Attention, O my Hearers, Give a Great Attention to this most Glorious Gospel of God; And, Hearken, O People, Every one of You.
In the Epistle to the Church of Rome, the Article of a Sinners being made Righteous through Faith in the Righteousness of God, is by the Spir•t of Prophecy most agreeably insisted on: The Holy Spirit foresaw, that the Church of Rome, would fall into an horrible Apostasy, which would very much ly in their confounding that very Article. 'Tis an Article in which lies the very Marrow of the Gspel! Give Attention, O my Hearers, Give a Great Attention to this most Glorious Gospel of God; And, Hearken, O People, Every one of You.