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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 there be difference between Gods manner of ⟨p. 271⟩working upon them who are dead spiritually,1 and upon those who are dead corporally; yet there can nothing be found which makes the effect of life less absolutely to depend upon God, in those, than in these.
Though there be difference between Gods manner of ⟨p. 271⟩working upon them who are dead spiritually,1 and upon those who are dead corporally; yet there can nothing be found which makes the effect of life lesse absolutely to depend upon God, in those, than in these.
- 1Quamvis igitur discrimen sit inter modum agendi, cum spiritualiter, & corporaliter mortuos, in via ad vivificationem, nihil tamen in eo reperiri potest quod in illis quam in istis effectum à Deominus absolutè pendere facit. Coron. artic. 4, c. 4.
We on the one hand against the Enthusiasts affirm not only the power to use, but the duty of using the means; and on the other hand, against the Arminians, deny that man before grace can do any thing, having the power of a cause (so far forth as cometh from them) in order to Life; because we are reasonable creatures God proceeds with us in the use of means; because we are dead creatures, in respect of the efficacy of the means, we depend wholly and absolutely upon God.
We on the one hand against the Enthusiasts affirm not onely the power to use, but the duty of using the means; and on the other hand, against the Arminians, deny that man before grace can do any thing, having the power of a cause (so far forth as cometh from them) in order to Life; because we are reasonable creatures God proceeds with us in the use of means; because we are dead creatures, in respect of the efficacy of the means, we depend wholly and absolutely upon God.