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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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Notwithstanding God is no way the Author of the evil of the action, yet God ascribeth unto himself the doing of these actions that are sinful; 1. Because he is the Author of the act wholly: 2. Because he is the fore-determiner, Orderer and Governor of the sinfulness of the action to his own glorious and blessed End. The action is ascribed to him ⟨p. 64⟩absolutely; the sin cleaving to the action not absolutely, but only in such sort and respects.
That Proposition of Aquinas, viz. that the act of sin is of God, 1is by some conjectured probably to have been the occasion why the unlearned Libertines, not distinguishing between the act, and the defect, did infer that God was the Author of sin.
- 1Twice Cr. 3. l. 2.Twisse Cr. 3. l. 2.
Arg. 3. Shimei's cursing of David was a sin, Exod. 22.28. God bade Shimei curse David, 2 Sam. 16.10. therefore God is the Author of sin.