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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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As the union between Christ and the soul,1 so the communion flowing from this union is mystical, a glimpse of whose excellency as it readily shineth forth in this place, in respect of the subject, object, and nature thereof; so cannot but be of precious and vigorous use to the serious and spiritual Reader, as he passeth along.
- 1The excellency of this communion flowing from union
The subject thereof is the Catholic Church or body of Christ.
The subject thereof is the Catholick Church or body of Christ.
The Mystical body of Christ is a spiritual Totum, 1or Whole, consisting of the Person of Christ, and all the persons of the Elect effectually called, both Angels and Men, orderly united, by the Spirit, unto Christ as their Head, and in him one unto another, after the manner of the body of a man; So as from him is supplied grace suitable to their several relations therein, for the effectual, and perfect communion both of all the members with the Head, and of themselves one with another, unto the increasing it self with the increase of God.
The Mystical body of Christ is a spiritual Totum, 1or Whole, consisting of the Person of Christ, and all the persons of the Elect effectually called, both Angels and Men, orderly united, by the Spirit, unto Christ as their Head, and in him one unto another, after the manner of the body of a man; So as from him is supplied grace suitable to their seveveral relations therein, for the effectual, and perfect communion both of all the members with the Head, and of themselves one with another, unto the increasing it self with the increase of God.