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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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CHAP. V. Of the Efficiency of God.
IN the Disquisition of this Subject, Consider 1. What the Efficiency of God is. 2. The Distribution thereof. 3. What the Concurse of the first Cause, with the second, is. 4. The Necessity thereof in respect of the second Cause. 5. The Manner of it. 6. The chief Objections against the All-efficiency of God. 6. The chief Objections against the All-governing Providence of God 7. The Use of this Doctrine
As God before time by one free, Eternal, and constant,1 immanent Act, decreed the futurition of all things: so God in time, by many transient Acts, doth exactly execute the same; only what he did decree, all that he did decree, and according as he did decree.
- 1The Efficiency of God, what.
The Decree is God willing the Futurition; i. e. The future being of all things. The external Efficiency of God, is Gods working all that he hath willed, according as he hath willed. In the Decree is Gods great design of future action. The Efficiency is the execution of that design. In the Decree is, as it were, the Counsel of God; the Efficiency is, as