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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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It is spacious, containing in it all invisible and visible creatures, and consequently this visible world; This is the great City of the great King; He measured with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal, Rev. 21.16.
It is spacious, containing in it all invisible and visible creatures, and consequently this visible world; This is the great City of the great King; He measured with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equall, Rev. 21.16.
It is the Court of God and Christ, wherein are habitations for innumerable company of Angels, and for the spiritual seed of ⟨p. 344⟩Abraham, which are as the sand of the Sea-shore, which is innumerable. In my Fathers house there are many Mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you it, Joh. 14.2. As it is said of Topheth (though in a contrary sense) It is large and deep, for the King it is prepared; So may it be said of Heaven, It is large and high, for the blessed it is prepared.
It is most pleasant, free from all evil, and full of all good, a proportionable object to glorified eyes, and a suitable place to glorified bodies. The light of it, is fitly compared to the light of a Jasper stone, Rev. 21.11. which is not darkened by clouds, neither doth hurt our eyes, but the more we look on it, the more it pleaseth us; neither doth it leave shining when the Sun shineth, nor doth the brightness of it go out at any time.