A89737:1060
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Treatise › Chapter 11: What is the first saving gift actually applied unto an Elect Soul.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the clearing of this Proposition, consider, 1 What the Person of Christ is? 2 What the Spirit of Christ is? 3 Why it is called the Spirit of Christ? 4 Why Faith is called a principal part of the Spirit of Christ? 5 What it is to receive the Person of Christ, and what it is to receive his Spirit? 6 The Arguments concluding the Proposition.
By the Person of Christ we are to understand God (viz. 1The second Person in the Trinity) and man, Mediator, in one, and that an increated Person.
- 1What the Person of Christ is?
By the Spirit of Christ,1 we are to understand the universal habitual created frame of inherent saving grace; The whole body of renewed saving qualities; The saving gifts of the Spirit; And hereby we know, that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us, 1 Joh. 3.24. It is called life, Rom. 8.10. The Spirit is Life, because of Righteousness; The Spirit of the command and promise is Life; The Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. i.e. The divine qualities of the mind, resembling the Nature of God. The seed remaining, 1 Joh. 3.9. The ⟨p. 250⟩