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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.
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.
In Vocation we receive our being, in Union is the manner of our being.