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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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Faith doth not justify as a work,1 but as an instrument apprehending Christ, Wollebius. | Etsi igitur fides sola non sit, sed cum operibus conjuncta, sola tamen justificat. Fides, non tanquam opus, sed tanquam instrumentum, Christum apprehendens. Justification consists in faith organically,2 in the obedience of Christ objectively, and meritoriously, Spanhemius. | Justificatio consistit in fide organicè: in Christi obedientia objectivè & meritoriè. We say with the Apostle,3 that we are justified by faith alone, because it embraceth him that justifieth us, namely Jesus Christ, Beza. | Cum Apostolo fide sola nos justificari dicimus, eo quod amplectitur eum qui nos justificat, nempe Jesum Christum. Faith justifieth not as an inherent quality and gift in us,4 by any worthiness thereof, but as it apprehendeth Christs righteousness, and this to us; and a little after, So that in faith reputed for righteousness, we are not to respect the worthiness of the act of believing in it self, but in respect of the Elect, Dr. Willet. | Consensum patrum cum orthodoxis reformatis in hac hujusce propositionis explicatione videat qui volet apud Chamierum panstrat Tom. 3. l. 22. c. 5. & apud Polanum Symphon. cathol. cap. 12
Faith doth not justifie as a work,1 but as an instrument apprehending Christ, Wollebius. | Etsi igitur fides sola non sit, sed cum operibus conjuncta, sola tamen justificat. Fides, non tanquam opus, sed tanquam instrumentum, Christum apprehendens. Justification consists in faith organically,2 in the obedience of Christ objectively, and meritoriously, Spanhemius. | Justificatio consistit in fide organicè: in Christi obedientia objectivè & meritoriè. We say with the Apostle,3 that we are justified by faith alone, because it imbraceth him that justifieth us, namely Jesus Christ, Beza. | Cum Apostolo fide sola nos justificari dicimus, eo quod amplectitur eum qui nos justificat, nempe Jesum Christum. Faith justifieth not as an inherent quality and gift in us,