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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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The Blessed see God with such a sight as is opposite to the sight of Faith. We that are at home in the body walk by faith, they who are absent from the body walk by sight, 2 Cor. 5.7. Therefore the sight of God by faith being mediate, what hinders but that the sight of him in the ⟨p. 328⟩state of felicity (opposed in that respect to that of faith) shall be immediate.
Man naturally desireth the Vision of God himself, whether he be considered as the first cause, for effects once found,1 we naturally desire to see their cause; or as the objective cause of Blessedness; as the sight is not quieted, except in the most excellent of visible objects; So is it impossible for the understanding to acquiesce, except it be in the highest being.
Man naturally desireth the Vision of God himself, whether he be considered as the first cause, for effects once found,1 we naturally desire to see their cause; or as the objective cause of Blessednesse; as the sight is not quieted, except in the most excellent of visible objects; So is it impossible for the understanding to acquiesce, except it be in the highest being.
- 1Smising tr. 2. Disput. 6. n. 46.49. Intellect us non quiet at nr summe intelligibili, nisi illud possideat perfectissimo genere cognitionis non implicante contradictionem. ibid. n. 51. Synops. disp. 52. n. 16.