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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 light of glory is a glorious supernatural influence, concurring with, and enabling of the inherent principle, of the glorified understanding, to see God. The light of glory may be so called, because it accompanieth the state of glory; it is a created perfection.
The light of glory is a glorious supernatural influence, concurring with, and inabling of the inherent principle, of the glorified understanding, to see God. The light of glory may be so called, because it accompanieth the state of glory; it is a created perfection.
As assisting grace is unto an act of new obedience, so is the light of glory unto the Beatifical Vision; as that extraordinary ⟨p. 334⟩assistance was unto Moses, whereby from the top of Pisgah he was enabled at once, to take a true, full, and clear prospect of the Land of Canaan, Deut. 3.27. and as that extraordinary assistance was unto Stephen, whereby whilst he was yet on earth, (the Heavens being opened) he saw Jesus Christ at the right hand of God; so is the ordinary assistance of the light of glory, in the life of glory, unto the blessed, in order to the Beatifical Vision.
The School-men speak thus of it;1 some, That it is a perfection superadded to the understanding, whereby the understanding is made able to see God; others, That it is an actual illustration, that is a supernatural influx, elevating the understanding unto the Vision of the Divine essence; others, That it is the supernatural concourse of the Beatifical object, whereby the object immediately manifests it self to the understanding, together with the understanding causing a most blessed Vision.