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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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Time is a successive Duration, having a beginning, and ending, without any remaining Now.
The Body is not so miserable under the Curse,1 as it is blessed in the Promise; as in the state of Corruption, it is abased lower than all created Bodies; so in the state of glory, it is exalted higher than all other Bodies, Christs excepted.
- 1Consid. 5. Of the condition of the Body after the Resurrection.
The excellency of the glorified Body consists especially in two things:
1 In that we shall see Christ as he is Man, with these eyes. 2 In certain inherent Celestial qualities. That we shall see Christ as he is Man with these eyes, Job manifestly testifieth; For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for my self; and mine eyes shall behold him, and not another, cap. 19.25, 26, 27.