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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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The Wisdom of God is a Justice whereby God giveth unto himself that which is his due, and consequently orders all things so as may conduce most to his own Glory.1 Seeing it is necessary that whatsoever God doth without himself, he should do for himself as the last End; the natural Justice of God, whereby he gives unto himself that which is his, requires that God appoint such means as most conduce to that End, and dispose of them in such a way as is most suitable thereunto. This Justice of God (say the Learned) is nothing else but his Wisdom, according to which all things are ordered to their due ends.
- 1Cum necesse sit, ut quicquid Deus agit ad extra id ipsū propter se agat tanquā finē ultimum, cū ipse sit summe amabilis: postulat justitia Dei naturalis qua sibi tribuit quod suum est, ut Leus statuat de mediis maximè cingruenter ad finem, &c. Twice de Reprob. l. 1. p. 3. dig. 1. Tho. p. 1. q. 47. A. 2. Dicitur justitia condecentiae, sine congruitat• qua Deus quicquid agit, agit convenienter sibi.Cum necesse sit, ut quicquid Deus agit ad extra id ipsū propter se agat tanquā finē ultimum, cū ipse sit summe amabilis: postulat justitia Dei naturalis qua sibi tribuit quod suum est, ut Leus statuat de mediis maximè cingruenter ad finem, &c. Twisse de Reprob. l. 1. p. 3. dig. 1. Tho. p. 1. q. 47. A. 2. Dicitur justitia condecentiae, sine congruitat• qua Deus quicquid agit, agit convenienter sibi.
The good of the Elect being included in the glory of God, it followeth that God administering things so as serveth best for his own glory, he administereth things so as serveth most for the good of his children. The way of the Wilderness forty years about (when as the Journey might have been gone in a few days, there being but eleven days between Horeb and Kadeshbarnea, Deut. 1.2.) was their right way,