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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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Treatise › Chapter 11: What is the first saving gift actually applied unto an Elect Soul.
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By Vocation Christ is in us, by union Christ dwelleth in us, by communion he communicates the benefits of a Head unto us.
As we receive the Person of Christ objectively, so we receive the Spirit of Christ formally.1
- 1What it is to receive the Spirit of Christ.
For the soul to receive the Spirit of Christ, is, for the soul so to be made partaker thereof, as to become the formal subject of that universal habitual created frame of inherent saving grace, or whole body of renewed saving qualities (of which before in the second Particular) whereby we are made Evangelically conformable to the revealed will of God.
This body of renewed saving qualities is infused by the Spirit of grace, in receiving whereof the soul is passive, as a vessel is a passive receiver of oil poured thereinto.1