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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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Three things are required to the operation of the understanding; 1. An intelligent faculty. 2. Light to illustrate the ⟨p. 339⟩understanding. 3 The presence of the object with the understanding; whatsoever is understood must be united with, and touch the understanding, which is done either by the eminent presence of things in the Divine Essence,1 so the soul understands in glory; or by the formal presence of the very things, so the Angels understand themselves, and so, we (as some conceive) see the Light; or by the similitude, or image of the thing, commonly called a Species, so we understand intelligible objects in this Life.
- 1Zanch. de operibus Dei part. 3. l. 2. c. 2
The soul whilst it is in the body, dependeth not upon any corporeal organ, fantasy, inward or outward sense, as an instrument, whereby it understands; but as an instrument to represent the object to be understood; which representative faculty of the fantasy, being performed, and that in a more eminent manner, either by the Divine Essence it self, supplying those Species; or by way of infusion of them, at, or immediately upon the instant of its separation, after the manner of the concreated Species of things in Angels; or by occasional abstraction of them from objects: The soul separated, remaineth free to its operations without the use of the body.
The soul whilst it is in the body, dependeth not upon any corporcal organ, phantasie, inward or outward sense, as an instrument, whereby it understands; but as an instrument to represent the object to be understood; which representative faculty of the phantasie, being performed, and that in a more eminent manner, either by the Divine Essence it self, supplying those Species; or by way of infusion of them, at, or immediately upon the instant of its separation, after the manner of the concreated Species of things in Angels; or by occasional abstraction of them from objects: The soul separated, remaineth free to its operations without the use of the body.