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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 primary object of the Beatifical Vision is of coequal largeness with, and co-extended to the object of faith. Paul makes the thing, or the object seen in the Life to come, to be the same with the object seen in this Life; but the manner of seeing is not the same. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I also am known, 1 Cor. 13.11, 12. The thing understood by a man, and a child, darkly or clearly, mediately or immediately, perfectly ⟨p. 331⟩or imperfectly, is the same; though the manner of understanding thereof be diverse.1 The habit of understanding in the Blessed, differeth from the habit of understanding in us, not in respect of the object understood, but in respect of the manner of understanding.
The primary object of the Beatifical Vision is of coequall largenesse with, and co-extended to the object of faith. Paul makes the thing, or the object seen in the Life to come, to be the same with the object seen in this Life; but the manner of seeing is not the same. When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I understood as a childe, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glasse darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I also am known, 1 Cor. 13.11, 12. The thing understood by a man, and a child, darkly or cleerly, mediately or immediately, perfectly ⟨p. 331⟩or imperfectly, is the same; though the manner of understanding thereof be diverse.1 The habit of understanding in the Blessed, differeth from the habit of understanding in us, not in respect of the object understood, but in respect of the manner of understanding.