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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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A Teret, empty of Reason, and full of pride; making us in part our own Creators, in respect of saving grace, the ⟨p. 282⟩most excellent creature, a Tenet repugnant to the grace of the Gospel, making us sharers with Christ, in the work of Vocation, the glory of the alone working whereof, by virtue of his special grace, is one of the Crown-Jewels of the Lord Jesus; a Tenet fundamentally perilous unto souls, directly tending to make them rest in a false Conversion, and so (without a new work) fall short for ever of salvation.
A Teret, empty of Reason, and full of pride; making us in part our own Creators, in respect of saving grace, the ⟨p. 282⟩most excellent creature, a Tenet repugnant to the grace of the Gospel, making us sharers with Christ, in the work of Vocation, the glory of the alone working whereof, by vertue of his special grace, is one of the Crown-Jewels of the Lord Jesus; a Tenet fundamentally perillous unto souls, directly tending to make them rest in a false Conversion, and so (without a new work) fall short for ever of falvation.
Vocation,1 Conversion, or Regeneration, is wrought in an instant. God in saying Live, makes alive. In this respect it is in the first, as it shall be in the second Resurrection: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (whilst God speaks the word) the dead shall rise.
- 1Peter Mart. in Rom. 7. v. 4 Regeneratio fit in instanti. Ames coron. art. 4. c. 4. Polon Syntag.