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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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Stay yet a little, and look upon this spiritual and glorious body, walk about Christ mystical, go round about him, tell the Members, mark ye well the Head, consider the bands and joints.
Stay yet a little, and look upon this spiritual and glorious body, walk about Christ mystical, go round about him, tell the Members, mark ye well the Head, consider the bands and joynts.
The Sanctuary was a curious work, Exod. 35.31-35. The Temple was a magnificent work, our holy and beautiful house where our Fathers praised thee, Isa. 64.11. The body of man is fearfully and wonderfully made,1 curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth, Psal. 139.14, 15. In it Anatomists observe two hundred and nineteen Bones (others two hundred forty eight) two and thirty Teeth, three hundred sixty five Veins. The bodies and persons of the Saints (as sanctified) are the workmanship of the more divine hand of God in Jesus Christ: A member glorified shineth as the Sun, Matth. 13.43. The body mystical considered as distinct from its head, consisting of the innumerable company of the first-born, every one whereof out-shines the Sun in its brightness, must needs excel in glory; all these are exceeded by the glorious body it self of the Lord of glory; All which notwithstanding, the body mystical hath its preeminence, consisting of the person of Christ, and of the persons of all believers, which besides that it contains the sum of all created, it partaketh also of increated glory; and is an object wherein all the perfections of God do so eminently shine forth, as though it be the duty of man dwelling in flesh, to look into, Yet neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, nor can it enter into the