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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 body is at rest, the soul is in blessedness; that the one is at rest, hindereth not the blessedness of the other; the body is asleep, but the soul putteth forth its perfect operations; The body is asleep in the custody of Jesus, 1 Cor. 15.18. The soul beholds the face of Jesus. Jacobs sleeping body troubleth not his communion with Christ and his Angels, Gen. 28. Pauls soul in the third heavens misseth not his body, though as may be supposed for the time soul-less upon earth, 2 Cor. 12.2. The condition of the soul, dissolved in the Lord, is as it were a blessed rapture, lasting from our dissolution to our resurrection; though the grave be a land of darkness, as darkness it self, and of the shadow of death, without any order, where the Light is as darkness, Job 10.22. yet is not that long-home of the body, so dark and disorderly, as the everlasting home of the soul is light and beautiful. The godly soul prepared should be no more afraid of death in regard of the body, than of its fall into a kindly sleep after weary labour, and as glad of dissolution in respect of it self, as of going to be with Christ, which is far better, Phil. 1.23.
The body is at rest, the soul is in blessednesse; that the one is at rest, hindreth not the blessednesse of the other; the body is asleep, but the soul putteth forth its perfect operations; The body is asleep in the custody of Jesus, 1 Cor. 15.18. The soul beholds the face of Jesus. Jacobs sleeping body troubleth not his communion with Christ and his Angels, Gen. 28. Pauls soul in the third heavens misseth not his body, though as may be supposed for the time soul-lesse upon earth, 2 Cor. 12.2. The condition of the soul, dissolved in the Lord, is as it were a blessed rapture, lasting from our dissolution to our resurrection; though the grave be a land of darkness, as darkness it self, and of the shadow of death, without any order, where the Light is as darkness,