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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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Government in general, is God's actual ordering of the creature according to his Decree, with such reference unto the Rule, as keeps it continually in the right way to its end.
The creature is either unreasonable, or reasonable; the Rule of the unreasonable creature, is the Law of Nature; the Rule of the reasonable creature, is the Moral Law.
In the Government of the reasonable creature, three things are to be observed.
1. An Obediential Power, That is, a capacity of the creature to become subject unto the Will of the Creator. 2. The Law of Nature, scil. The Impression of the Will of the Creator concerning the creatures, stamped upon them from the beginning; by virtue of those imperative, effectual words, Let there be, and it was so: Gen. 1.3.5.7.9. Hence, they are said, to have received a Command, Job 38.12. To keep covenant with God,