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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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Created Acts of Liberty being limited, and bounded by their objects, cannot tend unto divers objects, without tending to divers acts: but increated Liberty being infinite, is illimited by its objects; and tends unto divers objects by one and the same act.
Increated Liberty, is not to be looked at, as consisting in ⟨p. 19⟩an indifferency to divers acts of willing, or nilling: For that would argue imperfection in God: but it is clearly seen in respect of its divers created objects, which as they have their being from Gods good pleasure; so, had he so pleased, they had never been: but continued for ever in their nothing; himself notwithstanding eternal, all blessed, and all glorious.
Omnipotency is God able to do whatsoever his wisdom doth conceive, Gen. 18.14. Matth. 19.26. Isai. 46.10.