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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.
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. viz. what he hath revealed of himself in his Word and Works, according to our manner and measure.