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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Index: An Alphabetical Table of the principal matters contained in this Book.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
R. Receiving Christ is either active or passive. c. 12.267 Reconciliation twofold, one before, the other after our conversion. c. 14. p. 316 The Ministry, and Word of Reconciliation, why so styled, 2 Cor. 5 18, 19. c. 9. p. 215 Relative Attributes in number seven. c. 1. p. 10 Relative Attributes put no change in God. ibid. Repentance legal, or saving. c. 7. p. 153 Preparatory, or legal Repentance, what c. 7. ibid Repentance legal, or preparatory before faith, or saving after faith. c. 8. p. 184, 185 Reprobation is not an act of Justice. c. 4. p. 66, 67, 68 Reprobation is not the cause of sin, though the antecedent thereof. c. 4. p. 69 None in this life can ordinarily conclude they are Reprobate c. 4 p. 84. ⟨image 185⟩The Gospel why called a Revelation. c. 7. p. 152 Revelation of Christ so far as is necessary to salvation, what. c. 7. ibid. The Law, not the Decree, is the Rule of life. c. 4. p. 80, 81 Seven Rules to be observed in propounding of the Doctrine of the Decree. c. 4. 82, 83, 84, 85
S. Faith in what sense it is affirmed to be a part of Sanctification. c. 11. p. 255, 256 To ascertain salvation before faith, is to ascertain it to a work, or as it were to a work. c. 8. p. 174 Saving faith, what. c. 10. p. 219 Saving faith, the effect of Election. c. 10. p. 199 Before the grace of faith, there is nothing that is saving. c. 8.170 Seeking Christ without faith, and with faith, what. c. 7. p. 159 Though we cannot seek Christ in faith, yet it is our duty to pray. c. 7. p. ibid. Jesus Christ findeth the soul, while it so seeks him as yet it cannot seek him. c. 7. p. 160 The souls selling of all, is either legal or saving, legal what, and how distinguished. c. 8. p. 182, 183 Saving, threefold, and what. ibid. Simplicity in God, what. c. 1. p. 5 Adams sin, original sin, actual sin, what. c. 7. p. 142, 143, 144 God is not the author of sin, c. 4. p. 61, to 67 As God is not the author of sin, so be is not a mere permitter thereof. c. 4. p. 66 God delighteth not in the death of a sinner. c. 4. p. 73 Man is the cause of sin. c. 4. p. 70 Sin is the cause of punishment. c. 4. p. 71 Acknowledgement of the Sovereignty of God in point of showing, or not showing mercy, is a point of our humiliation. c. 7. 158 The term [special] to be attended in this Proposition, faith is the effect of special grace. c. 10. p. 228 The Spirit of Christ received by believers, what, and why so called. c. 11. p. 249, 150 How the soul receives the Spirit of Christ. c. 11. p. 250