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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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That Justification is actually and absolutely procured for the Elect before faith, and shall infallibly be applied to them all in time, seemeth to reach the scope intended by the godly Learned, whose spirits have more particularly laboured to hold forth the full truth in this precious part of the soul-reconciling, and soul-supporting mystery of the Gospèl. To say that we are justified by virtue of a singular promise in the Court of Conscience, and in our own persons (in which sense the Scripture constantly saith that we are justified by faith) is not (that I know) affirmed by any.
That Justification is actually and absolutely procured for the Elect before faith, and shall infallibly be applied to them all in time, seemeth to reach the scope intended by the godly Learned, whose spirits have more particularly laboured to hold forth the full truth in this precious part of the soul-reconciling, and soul-supporting mystery of the Gospèl. To say that we are justified by vertue of a singular promise in the Court of Conscience, and in our own persons (in which sense the Scripture constantly saith that we are justified by faith) is not (that I know) affirmed by any.
The grounds of this Distinction are thus evidenced.