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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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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.
Goodness so descends and cometh from God unto the creature, as that it stops not there, but ascends and returns again unto God: either by way of manifesting of his glory as a mere subject, and representative glass of his goodness, in the unreasonable creature: or, by way of giving glory to him, not only as a mere subject whereon his goodness is legibly engraven, but also as a subject yielding obedience to the command in the reasonable and sanctified creature.1 Hence love is said to be both extatical, that is, carrying the lover as it were out of himself unto the loved; as it is with the soul removed out of the body in a Trance: and circular, the beginning and end of which Circle is God, that Alpha, and Omega: from whom, and to whom are all things. Unto that infinite and increated Sea, whence all created rivers of goodness come, thither they return again.
Goodness so descends and cometh from God unto the creature, as that it stops not there, but ascends and returns again unto God: either by way of manifesting of his glory as a meer subject, and representative glass of his goodness, in the unreasonable creature: or, by way of giving glory to him, not only as a meer subject whereon his goodness is legibly engraven, but also as a subject yeilding obedience to the command in the reasonable and sanctified creature.1 Hence love is said to be both extatical, that is, carrying the lover as it were out of himself unto the loved; as it is with the soul removed out of the body in a Trance: and circular, the beginning and end of which Circle is God, that Alpha, and Omega: from whom, and to whom are all things. Unto that infinite and increated Sea, whence all created rivers of goodness come, thither they return again.
- 1Amor est, [Greek or Hebrew]. Circulus perpetuus est in amore.Amor est, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Circulus perpetuus est in amore.