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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.
CHAP. I. Of the Divine Essence.
Though nothing is more manifestly known, then that God is; yet nothing is more difficultly known, then what God is.
THough nothing is more manifestly known, then that God is; yet nothing is more difficultly known, then what God is.
Philosophy is here dumb, or worse. Simonides being asked what God was,1 asketh a days time to answer the question: At that days end he asketh two, at the end of these two he asketh four; and so often doubling the time, being asked the reason thereof, Because (saith he) the longer I study, the difficulter I find the question.
- 1Cicero de natura deor. lib. 1.
We in this life only see his back-parts, Exod. 33.23