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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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God willeth one creature to be the cause of another,1 and to be for the use of another, but yet that other thing is not the cause of Gods so willing. God willeth both the Being of the Father, and the Son, and willeth the Father to be the means to beget the Son; yet the Father is not the cause why God willeth the Son. God hath willed the Sabbath, and other creatures to be for the good and use of man, so as man is the subordinate end of their being, but yet man is not the cause of Gods willing their being to that end. Man is the subordinate end of their being, that are so willed: but he is not the cause of Gods willing their being to that subordinate end.
- 1Deus hoc vult esse & hoc, & hoc propter hoc, non autem propt r hoc vult. Hoc est, Deus vult & effectus esse & causas, & effectus esse pr. pter causas, non tamen propter causas vult effectus. Twiss. lib. 1. de Elect. part 2.
Obj. 1. The Merit of Christ is the Cause of Election,1 Ephes. 1.4, 6. Therefore the mere good pleasure of God is not the only cause of the Decree.
Obj. 1. The Merit of Christ is the Cause of Election,1 Ephes. 1.4, 6. Therefore the meer good pleasure of God is not the only cause of the Decree.
- 1The Chief Objections made against the Doctrine of the Decree considered, & answered. Christus ut Mediator. non est praedestinationis causa, sed effectum. Pisc. Cont. sch. Th. 97.