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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 place of the Blessed is usually known by the name of the third Heaven.1 The third Heaven is a simple and shining body, created immediately of God, to be the Throne of his special presence, and of the gracious manifestation of his perfections, and the habitation of the Blessed, both Angels and Men.
- 1Consider. 4. Of the Adjuncts of blessedness; where first of the place.Consider. 4. Of the Adjuncts of blessednesse; where first of the place.
The whole Region of the Air, unto the Moon, is in Scripture called the first Heaven; from the Moon to the highest Stats inclusively, the second Heaven: That which is above these (the place of happiness) the third Heaven, 2 Cor. 12.2.
This third Heaven is also called, A house not made with hands, 2 Cor. 5. A City whose builder and maker is God, Heb. 11.10. The City of the living God, Heb. 12.22. Christs Fathers house, Joh. 14.2. That better and heavenly Country of the Saints, Heb. 11.13, 14. Paradise,