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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.
The Object of the Decree is not to be sought for out of God himself, but both to be sought and found in himself.
1. Because the Object of the Decree is from Eternity, being as ancient as the decree it self. There cannot be an Act without or before the Object. 2. The Object of the Decree being Eternal, and there being nothing Eternal but God, either the Object of the Decree must be in God, or no where.
The Object of the Decree is, that which in order proceedeth or fore-goeth the Decree.
The Sufficiency of God, in which the possibility of the creature is founded, precedeth the Decree in order of our conception. For though the Sufficiency of God, and the Decree or Will of God (which is also true of all other Attributes) are the same in God, not having in him any real difference: yet they represent unto us notions formally differing.