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The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few…
The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perilous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begetting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perillous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begeting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.
London: printed by John Macock for Henry Cripps, 1654
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8. The encouragement that ariseth from the sense of our inability to believe.
8. The encouragement that ariseth from the sense of our infability to believe.
The Prison is the place of hope: mercy visits the prisoners of unbelief, Rom. 11.32. Christ finds them that are lost, Luke 15. After the House of Israel say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, we are out off for our parts, then God opens their graves: this Order of Gods Dispensation we are there called upon to take notice of. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, Behold O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come out of your graves, and bring you into the Land of Israel, Ezek. 37.11, 12.
9. The certain condemnation without faith.