A89737:1453
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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In an ecstasy, rapture or trance, (of which some reckon about five & thirty in the Scripture) which are spiritual Visions of the soul during that space, retiring as it were, out of the body, (or at the least) not making any use of the body therein; so far is the soul from not understanding at all, or from not understanding so well, as that it then understandeth best in this life. Paul is taken into the third Heaven, heareth unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter; all which we must needs grant might be done without corporeal organs, he himself telling us once and again, That whether it was in the body, or out of the body, he could not tell, 2 Cor. 12.2, 3.1
In an extasie, rapture or trance, (of which some reckon about five & thirty in the Scripture) which are spiritual Visions of the soul during that space, retiring as it were, out of the body, (or at the least) not making any use of the body therein; so far is the soul from not understanding at all, or from not understanding so well, as that it then understandeth best in this life. Paul is taken into the third Heaven, heareth unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter; all which we must needs grant might be done without corporeal organs, he himself telling us once and again, That whether it was in the body, or out of the body, he could not tell, 2 Cor. 12.2, 3.1
- 1Conimb. de de anima. l. 3. c. 8. q. 8. art. 2. Tollet. q. 21.
Immaterial Objects may be understood by the soul in the body, without corporeal organs, or sensible species.