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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.
To justify in this place, is not by way of infusion, viz. to sanctify, that is, of a person unclean, unholy, and unjust, to make him formally, and inherently pure, holy, just, by working in him the inherent qualities of purity, sanctity, and righteousness; but judicially to absolve a guilty sinner at the Tribunal of Gods Justice from guilt and punishment, and to declare him righteous. Justification in this place doth not signify a change of our nature, but a change of our state, i. e. of our spiritual condition, in order to the curse and promise; so as the person, which was under the Law before, is now not under the Law, but under grace, Rom. 6.14.
To justifie in this place, is not by way of infusion, viz. to sanctifie, that is, of a person unclean, unholy, and unjust, to make him formally, and inherently pure, holy, just, by working in him the inherent qualities of purity, sanctity, and righteousnesse; but judicially to absolve a guilty sinner at the Tribunal of Gods Justice from guilt and punishment, and to declare him righteous. Justification in this place doth not signifie a change of our nature, but a change of our state, i. e. of our spiritual condition, in order to the curse and promise; so as the person, which was under the Law before, is now not under the Law, but under grace, Rom. 6.14.
It is a Court-phrase, taken not Physically, but Judicially, for a Judicial, not a Physical act; it signifieth a relative Justification, of accounting a man just, not an habitual Justification, of making a man just; thus Barabbas a Thief, is acquitted judicially, whence followed a Legal, not a Physical change of Barabbas.
It is a Court-phrase, taken not Physically, but Judicially, for a Judicial, not a Physical act; it signifieth a relative Justification, of accounting a man just, not an habitual Justification, of making a man just; thus Barrabas a Thief, is acquitted judicially, whence followed a Legal, not a Physical change of Barrabas.