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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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For the fuller understanding hereof,1 consider these four following Propositions.
- 1Bellar. de Beat. Sanct. lib. 1. c. 2.
Prop. 1 The Soul considered in it self, is a subject capable of happiness. It is a subject capable either of Blessedness, or Misery; the Promise, or the Curse; Heaven, or Hell. It was a good answer of him, that upon the proposal of the Question, What the Soul was? replied, I know not. Man since the Fall being less than himself, understands not himself; nor will he fully, till he be fully restored to himself, in glory; yet as a help to our apprehension, we may conceive of it, after this, or the like manner.
Prop. 1 The Soul considered in it self, is a subject capable of happiness. It is a subject capable either of Blessedness, or Misery; the Promise, or the Curse; Heaven, or Hel. It was a good answer of him, that upon the proposal of the Question, What the Soul was? replied, I know not. Man since the Fall being lesse than himself, understands not himself; nor wil he fully, til he be fully restored to himself, in glory; yet as a help to our apprehension, we may conceive of it, after this, or the like manner.
The Soul is a Spiritual substance, created after the Image of God, endued with the faculties of Understanding, Will, Memory, and Affections, with a power of reflex acting upon it self (whereby it knoweth that it knoweth) according to the Latitude of the whole revealed Will, and Works of God; infused into the body, as the form thereof, and (being separated there-from) subsists by it self, to be re-united thereunto, at the Resurrection, to abide as the form thereof for ever. More briefly; The Soul of the Saints is a Spiritual, and Immortal