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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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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.
It is a free act; proceeding from God, not as the Son from the Father, nor as the Holy Ghost, from the Father and the Son; by a necessity of nature: but so, as there is no necessary connection between his absolute being, and the being of the things that are Decreed. God hath no need of the things decreed, he might have been without them, he had been blessed for ever, though they had never been.
It is a free act; proceeding from God, not as the Son from the Father, nor as the Holy Ghost, from the Father and the Son; by a necessity of nature: but so, as there is no necessary connexion between his absolut being, and the being of the things that are Decreed. God hath no need of the things decreed, he might have been without them, he had been blessed for ever, though they had never been.
It is a constant act; What God willeth, he willeth always: ⟨p. 52⟩a mere, and a pure act, without any interruption, or shadow of change.
It is a constant act; What God willeth, he willeth always: ⟨p. 52⟩a meer, and a pure act, without any interruption, or shadow of change.
By it, God determineth absolutely; because his Decree is the first and and universal cause, it is one Act, certain and independent: all things and all events depending thereupon.