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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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1. Beatifical Knowledge, is called the Knowledge of Vision: by it he doth not only see God face to face, (as all the rest of the blessed do) but seeth also the Manhood in Personal Union with the Godhead. Christ hanging upon the Cross had the Vision of God, even then whiles he suffered desertion by God: there was then personal union without any comfort of communion: The knowledge of the blessed, and the torment of the cursed: Of it, John 1.18. its principle: the perfect understanding of the Manhood: its Medium, the light of glory.
1. Beatifical Knowledge, is called the Knowledge of Vision: by it he doth not only see God face to face, (as all the rest of the blessed do) but seeth also the Manhood in Personal Ʋnion with the Godhead. Christ hanging upon the Cross had the Vision of God, even then whiles he suffered desertion by God: there was then personal union without any comfort of communion: The knowledge of the blessed, and the torment of the cursed: Of it, John 1.18. its principle: the perfect understanding of the Manhood: its Medium, the light of glory.
2. Infused, whereby he knoweth all things that can be known by the concreated abilities of Angels, or men, of it, Isai. 11.2. Its Principle, is a habit infused of God; its Medium, the light of grace.