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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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The first Tertium, or third being, wherein Christ and the Believer are united, is, Sameness of spirit; but he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit; the created grace which is in the Believer, is the same in kind with the created grace that is in the Manhood of Christ; Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit, 1 Joh. 4.13. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, Rom. 8.9. Partakers of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1.4.
The first Tertium, or third being, wherein Christ and the Beleever are united, is, Sameness of spirit; but he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit; the created grace which is in the Beleever, is the same in kinde with the created grace that is in the Manhood of Christ; Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit, 1 Joh. 4.13. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, Rom. 8.9. Partakers of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1.4.
The second is, One Mystical body; For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so is Christ; For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1 Cor. 12.12, 13.
The second is, One Mysticall body; For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so is Christ; For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,