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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.
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.
A personal or incommunicable property, is that which is proper to one person: the personal property of the Father is to Beget, Psal. 2.7. the personal property of the Son, is to be Begotten, Joh. 1.14.18. the personal property of the Holy Ghost is to proceed from the Father and the Son, Joh. 14.26. & 15.26.
A personal or incommunicable property, is that which is proper to one person: the personal property of the Father is to Beget, Psal. 2.7. the personal property of the Son, is to be Begotten, Ioh. 1.14.18. the personal property of the Holy Ghost is to proceed from the Father and the Son, Ioh. 14.26. & 15.26.
The manner of the workings of the three Persons upon the creature, is answerable to the manner of their subsistence in the divine Nature. The Father worketh of himself, the Son worketh from the Father, Joh. 5.19.30. and 8.28. The Holy Ghost worketh from the Father and the Son, Joh. 16, 13. Hence though all the Works of God concerning the Creature, are wrought jointly, by all the three Persons: yet is the work principally ascribed unto that person, whose manner of subsistence doth most eminently appear therein. Beginning works, as Creation, are ascribed principally unto the first Person; the carrying works on to perfection, as Redemption, unto the second Person: The perfecting of them, as the application of Redemption, unto the third Person.