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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.
The Existence of things, is there actual being in time, according to the Decree. This proceedeth from the external efficiency of God.1
- 1The creature considered as possible, is the object of the Decree.
The creature in the second state fore-mentioned, viz. in its condition of possibility is the object of the Decree.
Where we must remember the sufficiency of the Creator is the possibility of the creature. The possibility of the creature is nothing else but God able to create the creature. To think the creature hath a possibility of it self, were in effect to think the creature to be a Creator.
As the Futurition of the creatures is not any thing in the creatures themselves (in that as yet they actually are not) but is God,1 willing the creatures to be: so the possibility of of the creature (by the same reason) is not any thing in the creature, but is God, able to cause the creature to be.