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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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1 What Vocation is. 2 What it is for the Soul to be passive. 3 What the Habit of Faith, or any other Grace is. 4 What the second act, Life-operation, or exercise of Faith, or any other Grace (commonly called the act) is. 5 The just distinction between the Habit, and the second Act, or exercise of Grace, which is carefully to be observed. 6 That the habit of Faith (which also holds in any other Grace) precedes the second Act, or exercise thereof. 7 That in receiving the habit, the Soul is passive.
1 What Vocation is. 2 What it is for the Soule to be passive. 3 What the Habit of Faith, or any other Grace is. 4 What the second act, Life-operation, or exercise of Faith, or any other Grace (commonly called the act) is. 5 The just distinction between the Habit, and the second Act, or exercise of Grace, which is carefully to be observed. 6 That the habit of Faith (which also holds in any other Grace) precedes the second Act, or exercise thereof. 7 That in receiving the habit, the Soule is passive.
What Vocation is.
Vocation is the infusion of a principle of Life (or as some speak, of the solitary habit of Faith,1 in whose sense this Proposition also stands good and untouched) by the Spirit into the lost Soul (in measure sensible of its inability, and enmity to believe, repent, or do any good) by the means of, and together with the external call of the Gospel, in which work the Soul (notwithstanding any preparatory work) is merely passive, i. e. a mere passive receiver.
Vocation is the infusion of a principle of Life (or as some speake, of the solitary habit of Faith,1