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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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Omnipotency is God able to do whatsoever his wisdom doth conceive, Gen. 18.14. Matth. 19.26. Isai. 46.10.
All Contradictions, Impossibilities, and Repugnancies unto the revealed Will of God, are excluded in this Proposition: God is Omnipotent, or God can do all things. That, things which imply a contradiction: as namely, for the same thing to be, and not to be; and impossibilities, as namely, for a man not to be a reasonable creature, and the like: fall not under the compass of Omnipotency, is not from any defect (it is indeed from the perfection) of power in God; but from the impossibility of the things: so that concerning matters of this nature, it is more convenient to say,1 that they cannot be, which showeth their non-possibility to be, then that God cannot do them; which seemeth to touch upon Omnipotency. So likewise that God cannot sin, lye, or deny himself, is not from defect, but from the Eminency of his Power, and Absolute Perfection, whence he is uncapable of being touched with any imperfection.
All Contradictions, Impossibilities, and Repugnancies unto the revealed Will of God, are excluded in this Proposition: God is Omnipotent, or God can do all things. That, things which imply a contradiction: as namely, for the same thing to be, and not to be; and impossibilities, as namely, for a man not to be a reasonable creature, and the like: fall not under the compass of Omnipotency, is not from any defect (it is indeed from the perfection) of power in God; but from the impossibility of the things: so that concerning matters of this nature, it is more convenient to say,1 that they cannot be, which sheweth their non-possibility to be, then that God cannot do them; which seemeth to touch upon Omnipotency. So likewise that God cannot sin, lye, or deny himself, is not from defect, but from the Eminency of his Power, and Absolute Perfection, whence he is uncapable of being touched with any imperfection.