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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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Secondly. The Faithful People of the Lord Jesus Christ, have His Glorious Righteousness by God Imputed unto them. Thus we a•e taught, ⟨p. 11⟩in Rom. 3.22. The Righteousness of God, is by the Faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe. And how comes it so to be: 'Tis by a Gracious Imputation of God. The Phrase, as well as the Thing, is all over Scriptural: 'tis derided indeed, and blasphemed, by an Unrighteous Generation: but those men do Err not knowing the Scriptures; or, which is worse, do Sin against their Knowledge of the Scriptures. Is it not expressly written, in Rom. 4 6, 11. God Imputeth Righteousness unto a man without works: And, Righteousness is Imputed unto all that believe? Now, when we say, The Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, is Imputed unto us, the meaning of it, is, That God, our Judge, Looks on it as belonging to us, and pleadable by us, in order to our being Judicially dealt withal, according to the merit of it. It is an Act of mere Grace, in our most Gracious God, by which He makes unto us, an Effectual Grant, of that Righteousness, which our Lord Jesus Christ, in Answering the Law, under which He voluntarily put Himself, hath provided for us, A Righteousness, which antecedently to the Imputation was not ours, is now so made ours, that for the sake thereof, we are both Absolved from the Curse of the Law, and Adjudged unto the Reward of the Heavenly Inheritance. This Imputation proceeds not on a wrong Judgment, That our Lord Jesus Christ has done what we did in our Rebellion, and that we have done what He did in His Obedience. But the Imputation makes that become ours, which was not so till, and which ⟨p. 12⟩is not so, but by, the Imputation Through' such an Imputation was brought about the Justification which is the first whereof we have any Express Record in the Book of God. [Gen. 15.6.]
Secondly. The Faithful People of the Lord Jesus Christ, have His Glorious Ri•h•eousness by God Imputed unto them. Thus we ae taught,