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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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CHAP. II. Of the Trinity.
For our better proceeding in searching into this Mystery of Mysteries, Consider 1. The Clearness of the Truth from Scriptures. 2. What a Person is. 3. What it is that constitutes a Person. 4. What a Personal Act is, the attending whereunto helps much to clear both the Nature of a Person, and the Trinity of Persons. 5. The Names, or Appellations, ascribed to the several Persons in the Scripture. 6. The Distinction between a Person, & the Essence. 7. The Distinction between a Person, and a Person. 8. What terms we are to avoid in speaking of the Trinity. 9. Satisfaction to some few Objections. 10. The Usefulness of this Doctrine.
FOr our better proceeding in searching into this Mystery of Mysteries, Consider 1. The Clearness of the Truth from Scriptures. 2. What a Person is. 3. What it is that constitutes a Person. 4. What a Personal Act is, the attending whereunto helps much to clear both the Nature of a Person, and the Trinity of Persons. 5. The Names, or Appellations, ascribed to the several Persons in the Scripture. 6. The Distinction between a Person, & the Essence. 7. The Distinction between a Person, and a Person. 8. What terms we are to avoid in speaking of the Trinity. 9. Satisfaction to some few Objections. 10. The Usefulness of this Doctrine.
Amongst the Multitude of Scriptures,1 holding forth the Doctrine of the Trinity of Persons in the Divine Essence: Let it at present suffice to transcribe these. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,