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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.
But the Futurition of the creature is nothing else but God willing the creature to be. God able to cause the creature, or what else is possible to be, is his sufficiency. God willing the creature to be, is his Decree, God representing the creature having an objective being in his will, is that which is called the divine Idea. The creature, as possible, is the object of the Decree. The Idea is the object of the divine knowledge of what is decreed.
The objective Being of the Creatures in God is the very Being of God. | Esse Objectivum Creaturarum in intellectu divino est ipsum esse Dei. ⟨p. 55⟩The Creature in God, is the Essence it self creating. | Creatura in Deo est ipsa creatrix Essentia.1 The Idea is the Divine Essence representing the creature. | Idea est Essentia Divina,2 representans Creaturam. The Creatures themselves, as they are conceived in the mind of God, are the Idea of that nature which they have in themselves. | Ipsae Creaturae, prout in meant divina concipiuntur,3 sunt Idea illius Naturae quam habent in semetipsis. The Objective Being of things in respect of the divine understanding, is not a relative being, but a most absolute, and most real being; viz. the very Being of God himself. | Esse Objectivum rerum respectu Intellectus Divini,4 non est esse relativum, sed absolutum, realissimum, scil. esse Dei. We judge with Cajetane, (saith Doctor Twice) that the objective being of the creatures in God, is the very Being of God. | Nos autem cum Cajetano judicamus, [Greek or Hebrew] esse Objectivum,5 Creaturarum in Deo esse ipsum esse Dei. Were not the Object of Divine Knowledge in God, there could be no certain knowledge of future contingents. | Objectum proximum & immediatum divinae cognitionis,