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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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The habit is conversion in the first act; the Life-operation, or Life-act, is conversion in the second act. The habit is actually, or an active principle existing without its causes; the Life-act is action. The habit is an immanent act, i. e. such an act as is inward, and abideth; The Life-act, is a transient act, that is, such an act as passeth away. The habit is the will it self; the Life-act is the volition. The habit is the inclining of the soul to the object of its action; the Life-act is the union of the soul with the object. In the infusion of the habit the soul acteth not, but is only acted;1 In the Life-act the soul being acted, acteth. The habit God worketh without us; the Life-act, God worketh with us. In the habit of faith, is the being of faith it self; the Life-act of saith, is the working of this grace now wrought. The infusion of the habit is effectual vocation: The Life-act of faith, is our answer unto the call of God. Effectual vocation is called the drawing of the Father, Joh. 6.44. our being taught of God, our hearing and learning of the Father, John 6.45. The Life act of faith is the souls immediate coming unto Christ, upon its being drawn, taught of God, and having ⟨p. 261⟩