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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 may be blessed, though the body be dead. We look too much upon the dead carcass, and too little upon the living soul. Christs body in the grave interrupts not the happiness of his soul in Paradise. As the body in the grave doth neither good nor evil, so it feeleth neither good nor evil. It is as if it were not, Joseph is not, Ger. 42.36.
The soul may be blessed, though the body be dead. We look too much upon the dead carkass, and too little upon the living soul. Christs body in the grave interrupts not the happinesse of his soul in Paradise. As the body in the grave doth neither good nor evil, so it feeleth neither good nor evil. It is as if it were not, Joseph is not, Ger. 42.36.
The bodies of the Saints at death cease for ever from sin, and from all suffering that is felt; there is neither sin, nor tear, in the grave; And from suffering it self, at the Resurrection. The body is neither sensible of the want of the soul, nor doth the soul feel any miss of the body.
The bodies of the Saints at death cease for ever from sin, and from all suffering that is felt; there is neither sin, nor tear, in the grave; And from suffering it self, at the Resurrection. The body is neither sensible of the want of the soul, nor doth the soul feel any misse of the body.
The body is neither sensible of good or evil concerning it self, nor concerning the soul; the soul, though it be not touched with any evil, yet it is affected with good concerning the body, whilst it looks at it as sown, 1 Cor. 15.43. As at rest, Isa. 57.2