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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 soul in its separation from the body, undergoeth a privative, not a positive change. It suffereth a change in respect of its information of the body, and operations by the instruments of the body. It informed the body before, but not now; It exerciseth the same operations now, that it exercised before, though not in the same manner; then with, but now without the body.
In the state of glory,1 the soul is free to contemplate material objects, either in themselves by intelligible, and sensible species, according to the use of corporeal organs glorified, or according to their representation in the Divine Essence. As grace doth not destroy, but help; so glory doth not destroy, but perfect nature. The soul glorified, and reunited to the body, at its pleasure useth, but dependeth not upon the fantasy, for the understanding of material objects.
In the state of glory,1 the soul is free to contemplate materiall objects, either in themselves by intelligible, and sensible species, according to the use of corporeal organs glorified, or according to their representation in the Divine Essence. As grace doth not destroy, but help; so glory doth not destroy, but perfect nature. The soul glorified, and reunited to the body, at its pleasure useth, but dependeth not upon the phantasie, for the understanding of material objects.
- 1Tho. 2.2. qu. 175. art. 4. Conim. de anima. l. 3. c. 8. qu. 8 art. 3.
Prop. 3. The condition of the body in the state of death, prejudiceth not the blessedness of the soul.