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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, The Divine Essence, 1 Joh. 3.2.
Secondly, The Attributes of God: Hence the Saints, upon the Vision, or contemplation of the Essence, break out into an admiration of the Attributes, Isa. 6.3. Rev. 4 8, 10, 11, & 5.13. which also appears from the simplicity of the Divine Essence; the Attributes of God are not distinguished from Essence; all and every of the Attributes are the Divine Essence it self; whatsoever is in God, is God. The Essence is not without the Subsistence, nor the Subsistence without the Essence.
Thirdly, The Trinity of Persons; He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, Joh. 14.9. not the Essence alone, nor the manner of the Subsistence alone; but the Essence with the manner of the Subsistence is a Person; So that he that seeth the Essence, seeth the Subsistences; our communion here is with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 2 Cor. 13, 14. Much more hereafter.
Thirdly, The Trinity of Perions; He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, Joh. 14.9. not the Essence alone, nor the manner of the Subsistence alone; but the Essence with the manner of the Subsistence is a Person; So that he that seeth the Essence, seeth the Subsistences; our communion here is with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,