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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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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
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 oyl powred thereinto.1
- 1The Arguments concluding the Proposition.
The habit of faith (due Reverence premised to any godly learned that may herein dissent) seemeth not to be infused alone, before the other habits of saving grace. The universal frame of saving grace, or of the new creature, is infused into the soul at once as one general habit.
To affirm the presence of faith, though but notionally (in signo rationis) i.e. for a moment of reason, though not for a moment of time, with the total absence of all other graces, implieth ⟨p. 253⟩these improbabilities, if not impossibilities.
To affirme the presence of faith, though but notionally (in signo rationis) i.e. for a moment of reason, though not for a moment of time, with the totall absence of all other graces, implyeth ⟨p. 253⟩these improbabilities, if not impossibilities.