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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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In that the person of Christ is increated, but one, and that one person subsisteth in both Natures, hence it followeth, 1. That Christ though he assumed the nature of man, yet the manhood assumed, was not a person, otherwise there would be two persons in Christ. 2. That the Body of Christ (the matter whereof was the sanctified Seed of the Virgin Mary) was completely Organized, and inspired with a reasonable Soul from the instant of its conception, besides the ordinary course of nature; otherwise the divine Nature should have assumed an Embryo, not the nature of a man. 3. That though Christ be the Son of God by Eternal generation,1 in respect of the increated proceeding of the second Person, from of the first, Mat. 16.16. Joh. 8.42. And the Son of man being born of the Virgin Mary in the fullness of time in respect of his humane Nature, Mat. 1.1.18, 21, 23. yet, the person being but one, there is but one Son, not two Sons. 4. That the Virgin Mary is by Elizabeth truly called the Mother of our Lord, Luk. 1.43. and by the Ancients,2 the bringer forth of God; for (the humane Nature never subsisting but in the divine) in that the humane Nature was born of the Virgin Mary; therefore the whole person was born of the Virgin Mary: Because that which is true of the part is true of the whole, in respect of that part; by the communication of Idioms, or properties: therefore also that Holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God, Luk. 1.35.
In that the person of Christ is increated, but one, and that one person subsisteth in both Natures, hence it followeth, 1. That Christ though he assumed the nature of man, yet the manhood assumed, was not a person, otherwise there would be two persons in Christ. 2. That the Body of Christ (the matter whereof was the sanctified Seed of the Virgin Mary) was compleatly Organized, and inspired with a reasonable Soul from the instant of its conception, besides the ordinary course of nature; otherwise the divine Nature should have assumed an Embrio, not the nature of a man. 3. That though Christ be the Son of God by Eternal generation,