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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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A Person is distinguished from a Person,1 as a relation and manner of a being, or thing, is distinguished from a relation, or manner of a being, or thing; or otherwise, they are distinguished by the order of their original, their personal properties, and the manner of their working upon the Creature.
- 1The distinction between a person and a person.
It being but now sufficiently shown what the manner of a Being or thing is, and how it is distinguished from the thing, it is not hard to conceive (especially in the matter before us, where the manner of a thing is a relation) how the manner of a thing is distinguished from the manner of a thing. From the processions, and relations arising out of that infinite Sea of being, viz. the divine nature, Joh. 8.42. &. 15.26. appeareth the order of the Original of the persons. ⟨p. 28⟩The order of Original in the divine nature,1 is that whereby one person is of another: The Father is the first, The Son is the second, The Holy Ghost the third person; but we may not say, the Holy Ghost is the first, and the Father is the third person. The Father is he, who is not without another: and from whom is another, viz. the Son. The Son is he, who is of another, viz. the Father, and from whom with the Father is another, viz. the Holy Ghost.
It being but now sufficiently shewn what the manner of a Being or thing is, and how it is distinguished from the thing, it is not hard to conceive (especially in the matter before us, where the manner of a thing is a relation) how the manner of a thing is distinguished from the manner of a thing. From the processions, and relations arising out of that infinit Sea of being, viz. the divine nature,