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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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He'll be willing that the Sinner should come to any thing, and Reform a thousand Ill Things, and Perform ten thousand good ones, and live like an Angel; so he may but be kept from This One Thing after all. We find in 2 Cor 4 4. The God of this world hath Blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the Light of this Glorious Gospel of Christ, should shine into them. How many Objections, what Subtle Evasions, does the Devil insinuate into the minds of men, against this way of coming unto Righteousness! Learned Writers have therefore Laboured with Exquisite Compositions, to confound the Gospel-Truth, of our being made Righteous, by the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Their Elaborate oppositions to this Truth of God, are not easily Refelled: But, There's the Hand of Joab in them! The Sinner can't bear to let go all that is ⟨p. 22⟩Laudable in himself, because if that be gone, he must be very Vile indeed: but man don't Love to be Vile! Wherefore, like a Drowning man, he will catch at any Straw. First he will Try to fetch out a Righteousness from the Works of the Law. When that fails, he will Try whether the Works of the Law, and the Grace of the Gospel together will not help him, to a Righteousness. If that fails, he will Try whether the Works of the Gospel, may not be joined unto the Righteousness, of the Lord Jesus Christ, and come in, upon His Account, as the Matter of our Righteousness. Those Things, which want to be Justified themselves, must needs be brought in […] the matter by which we are Justified! Thus he'll turn, and wind, and make all the Shifts imaginable, rather than come to the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Thus it will be, till Faith be wrought in the Heart of a Sinner, by the working of the mighty power of God.
He'l be willing that the Sinner should come to any thing, and Reform a thousand Ill Things, and Perform ten thousand good ones, and live like an Angel; so he may but be kept from This One Thing after all. We find in 2 Cor 4 4. The God of this world hath Blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the Light of this Glorious Gospel of Christ, should shine into them. How many Objections, what Subtil Evasions, does the Devil insinuate into the minds of men, against this way of coming unto Righteousness! Learned Writers have therefore Laboured with Exquisite Compositions, to confound the Gospel-Truth, of our being made Righteous, by the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Their Elaborate oppositions to this Truth of God, are not easily Refelled: But, There's the Hand of Joab in them! The Sinner can't bear to let go all that is