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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.
Sol. Passive is taken either absolutely, for that which is simply passive, and in no respect active; so the soul is not passive; God doth not work savingly upon us, as upon stocks or senseless creatures: or it is taken respectively, for that which notwithstanding in some sense it be active, yet in some it is passive; the soul is passive in this latter sense: it is active in respect of the use of means, it is passive in respect of any saving efficacy by the use of means. Sarah was active in respect of the use of means, yet passive in conceiving by the use of means, Rom. 4.19. Heb. 11.11, 12. the Shunamites child (notwithstanding any natural heat, and radical humour, yet remaining in its dead body) was passive in regard of the re-infusion of the reasonable soul, 2 King. 4.34. notwithstanding the noise of the bones, there coming together, bone to his bone, the sinews and flesh coming upon them, and the skin covering them, yet those breathless bodies remain passive in respect of life, Ezek. 37.7, 8.
Sol. Passive is taken either absolutely, for that which is simply passive, and in no respect active; so the soul is not passive; God doth not work savingly upon us, as upon stocks or senselesse creatures: or it is taken respectively, for that which notwithstanding in some sense it be active, yet in some it is passive; the soule is passive in this latter sense: it is active in respect of the use of means, it is passive in respect of any saving efficacie by the use of means. Sarah was active in respect of the use of means, yet passive in conceiving by the use of means, Rom. 4.19. Heb. 11.11, 12. the Shunamites childe (notwithstanding any natural heat, and radical humor, yet remaining in its dead body) was passive in regard of the re-infusion of the reasonable soule, 2 King. 4.34. notwithstanding the noyse of the bones, there coming together, bone to his bone, the sinewes and flesh coming upon them, and the skin covering them, yet those breathleffe bodies remaine passive in respect of life,