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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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Though God by his absolute Power might have saved man without Redemption wrought by Christ: yet having constituted that Rule of relative Justice, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely dye, Gen. 2.17. He could not ⟨p. 15⟩in respect of his Power now limited to proceed by this rule, so that man having sinned, man must dye, and satisfy the Law that man may live. Justice requireth the Surety should dye, that the Debtor may live: That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus, Rom. 3.26.
Though God by his absolute Power might have saved man without Redemption wrought by Christ: yet having constituted that Rule of relative Justice, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely dye, Gen. 2.17. He could not ⟨p. 15⟩in respect of his Power now limited to proceed by this rule, so that man having sinned, man must dye, and satisfie the Law that man may live. Justice requireth the Surety should dye, that the Debtor may live: That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus, Rom. 3.26.
Justice is, God willing, to render unto the reasonable creature what is due thereunto according to his word: whether by way of grace, or punishment, Deut. 32.4. Dan. 9.16. 1 John 1.9.