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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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Sixthly, The Book of the Creature; the Angels seeing the face of God, read (as Augustine speaks) without the syllables of time; they see the heart of God, so far forth as revealed in his word; much more the secrets of nature then shall we be able to answer those questions propounded, Job 38.16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
Sixthly, The Book of the Creature; the Angels seeing the face of God, reade (as Augustine speaks) without the syllables of time; they see the heart of God, so far forth as revealed in his word; much more the secrets of nature then shall we be able to answer those questions propounded, Job 38.16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
The will of God representing the creature, is that eternal ⟨p. 332⟩Idea, wherein as in a glass the works of God are more perfectly seen than in themselves. To say the creature is seen in God, and to say the creature is seen in the word, meaneth with Divines the same thing, because works of knowledge (notwithstanding they, as all other creatures, proceed equally from the Essence subsisting in three persons, yet) are especially appropriated unto the Son, in respect of the order of his subsistence. It is in the power of the Divine Essence to represent the creatures, because this representative power is a perfection: now all perfections are in God, because God is an infinite Essence, and containeth eminently the perfection of the whole creature,1 whether already created, or to be created; because God is the first cause, and so containeth virtually the perfection of the whole creature, i. e. of all effects, whether created, or to be created; because the creature in God, is the Essence, able, and willing to create, or actually creating; the creature is contained in the Creator, as that which is perfect by participation, is in perfection it self, as the effect in its cause, or Conclusions in their principles; the creature is to be seen in God, in a more excellent manner than in it self, thence they are said to be eminentially contained in him. Could we see clearly a building in the perfect conception of the Artificer, we should see it in a more excellent manner than in the Edifice it self.