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Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…
Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is showed, the Lords sovereignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...
printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 1664
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It is confessed, there are some Apices, or lesser points in Divinity, which the Church of God hath now for above an hundred years bewailed, as the obstacles of Peace, concerning which the chief controversies maintained are about Predestination, Ubiquity, and the Eucharist. About these points how many thousand Polemic writings have been extant all abroad, which the Christian World is scarce able to contain? Alas! that ever there should be a war about the Sacrament! Alas! that ever there should be any contentious Treatises about the Eucharist, turning the very Badge of Union, into an Apple of Contention! who can refrain from tears at the uttering of such things? yet these notwithstanding, that there is place for the so much desired Coalition between the Evangelics and the Reformed, so called may easily be made appear, by running through the chief Heads of things:
It is confessed, there are some Apices, or lesser points in Divinity, which the Church of God hath now for above an hundred years bewailed, as the obstacles of Peace, concerning which the chief controversies maintained are about Predestination, Ubiquity, and the Eucharist. About these points how many thousand Polemick writings have been extant all abroad, which the Christian World is scarce able to contein? Alas! that ever there should be a warre about the Sacrament! Alas! that ever there should be any contentious Treatises about the Eucharist, turning the very Badge of Union, into an Apple of Contention! who can refrain from tears at the uttering of such things? yet these notwithstanding, that there is place for the so much desired Coalition between the Evangelicks and the Reformed, so called may easily be made appear, by running through the chief Heads of things:
As namely, Because in the first Article, they who were the greatest Favourers of that eminent Worthy of the former Age, do yet ascribe the work of Conversion wholly unto God, and do likewise stiffly maintain, and accurately defend, Grace to be altogether ⟨p. 4⟩free; who were also utter enemies to that pestilent Opinion of the Schoolmen [That God is bound to him that doth what he can of himself] And who likewise do deservedly account it mere Pelagianism, to make any kind of Qualifying Fitness a Moral Motive unto predetermining Grace.