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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Union in order of nature, though not in order of time, followeth Vocation, which appeareth by the considering of a being or essence, Oneness, and Union distinctly.
A being or essence is the thing it self; Oneness is an affection immediately flowing from the mere being of a thing, whereby it is individed in it self, and divided from all other beings, or things.
A being or essence is the thing it selfe; Oneness is an affection immediatly flowing from the meer being of a thing, whereby it is individed in it selfe, and divided from all other beings, or things.
Union is the conjunction of two ones or more into a third being; for example sake,1 take a man consisting of Body and Soul, the Soul first hath a being, then this singular being, and not another; then it is united unto the body in a third being, namely, the person of a man; the like is true of the body.
- 1Ens, unum, unio.