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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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In effectual calling man is altogether passive,1 being quickened and renewed by the holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call.
In effectual calling man is altogether passive,1 being quickned and renewed by the holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call.
- 1Assembly at Westminster.
This Doctrine of the passiveness of the soul in Vocation is a fundamental truth, holding forth the Spirit of Christ in a way of special grace, to be not only the adequate, but also the sole efficient cause of faith. And therefore Freewill in a man yet without Christ (partaker of what common grace soever) can do nothing of any causal virtue towards the working thereof.
This Doctrine of the passivenesse of the soul in Vocation is a fundamental truth, holding forth the Spirit of Christ in a way of special grace, to be not onely the adequate, but also the sole efficient cause of faith. And therefore Freewill in a man yet without Christ (partaker of what common grace soever) can do nothing of any causal vertue towards the working thereof.
Contrary to the Doctrine of the Arminians, teaching, that Christ, and Free-will, are partial causes of Conversion; No otherwise than as a Boy drawing of the ship with his father, is a cause of the motion thereof; whence (according unto them) like as Free-will without the grace of Christ is insufficient; so the grace of Christ, without the co-working of Free-will, sufficeth not to the working of the grace of faith in the soul.