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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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God is holy essentially, and so is none but he, 1 Sam. 2. There is none holy as the Lord, the creature is holy only by participation. He is the Author of all created holiness; both of the Moral Law, which is the rule of holiness; and of the infused grace of holiness, whence the reasonable creature is made conformable to that rule, and of all other holiness whatsoever: therefore justly called, the Holy One of Israel, Isai. 41.20. Wisdom is, God understanding all things intelligible by his Essence, 1 Tim. 1.17. Acts 15.18. 1 John 3.20.
God is holy essentially, and so is none but he, 1 Sam. 2. There is none holy as the Lord, the creature is holy only by participation. He is the Authour of all created holiness; both of the Moral Law, which is the rule of holiness; and of the infused grace of holiness, whence the reasonable creature is made conformable to that rule, and of all other holiness whatsoever: therefore justly called, the Holy One of Israel, Isai. 41.20. Wisdom is, God understanding all things intelligible by his Essence, 1 Tim. 1.17. Acts 15.18. 1 John 3.20.
God comprehending his own Essence, seeth all things; because all Possibilities, Futuritions, and Beings; that is, all things that might have been, shall be, or actually be, are eminently contained in the Divine Essence. Whence, by the way it may appear, That the Divine Essence as willing the futurition of things, is that increated Idea of all things: which God comprehending, understandeth the creature better in himself, then it is to be understood in it self. God seeing himself, seeth all things, without exemption of any; always, without intermission; perfectly, without defect: at once, without succession. He is all eye, yet without an eye: all memory, yet without a memory.