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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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Our Lord Jesus Christ, hath Endured the Penalty of the Law for us. The Sufferings of our Lord, made a full Satisfaction, for all the wrong done by our Sin to the Law of God We are advised in 2 Cor. 5.21. God made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. And our Lord Jesus Christ, ha•h performed the Precept of the Law for us. The Actions of our Lord, have been a complete Observation of the Law, and of all that is Forbidden, and all that is Required, in it. We are advised, in Joh 8.29. He did always the Things that pleased the Father. The Law which condemns man to Die, still commands ⟨p. 10⟩him to Do. Through the Sufferings of our Lord, our Sins are pardoned; but through the Doings of our Lord, we recover the Heirship of a Kingdom. Indeed mere Sufferings, as such, are no obedience. Take the Testimony of Grotius, about the Faith of the primitive Church in this point: Cum duo nobis peperisse Christum dixerimus, Impunitatem et praemium, illud satisfactioni, hoc merito Christi, distincte tribuit vetus Ecclesia. According to Law, Happiness is due to Righteousness Well; we are sure [from Gal. 4 4.] That our Lord Jesus Christ, was made under that very Law, from the Curse whereof we are delivered by His answering of it. And the Righteousness of the Law, we are sure [from Rom. 8 4] was fulfilled, by the Son of God, coming in the likeness of sinful F•esh. Our Lord Jesus Christ, by His perfect Righteousness, may then lay claim to Happiness. For whom? Even for those, for whom God has Admitted Him to stand as a Surety. God put our Lord under the Law, that He might thus furnish us, with a Righteousness, in all things answering the Law; a Righteousness, which Fallen man condemned by the Law, could by no means furnish himself withal; a Righteousness wherein the Honour of the Law, and of the God that gave the Law, is consulted infinitely.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, hath Endured the Paenalty of the Law for us. The Sufferings of our Lord, made a full Satisfaction, for all the wrong done by our Sin to the Law of God We are advised in