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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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Gods Government of the reasonable creature, is his actual ordering Angels and men, according to his Decree, with such relation unto the Moral Law, as containeth them in the acknowledgement thereof by way of obedience, or in case of disobedience, subjects them unto the curse annexed thereunto. The creatures reasonable, and unreasonable, always are ordered according to the Decree; the unreasonable creature ordinarily also is ordered according to its rule: man by reason of sin often erreth from his rule.
Gods Government of the reasonable creature, is his actual ordering Angels and men, according to his Decree, with such relation unto the Moral Law, as containeth them in the acknowledgement thereof by way of obedience, or in case of disobedience, subjects them unto the curse annexed thereunto. The creatures reasonable, and unreasonale, always are ordered according to the Decree; the unreasonable creature ordinarily also is ordered according to its rule: man by reason of sin often erreth from his rule.
God prescribes unto the reasonable creature a rule, having in the Creation enabled the Angels in their proper persons; man in Adam, to yield obedience unto that rule, rewarding obedience according to the Promise; either by way of Merit, as in the first; or by way of Grace, as in the second Covenant: and punishing disobedience according to the curse.
God prescribes unto the reasonable creature a rule, having in the Creation enabled the Angels in their proper persons; man in Adam, to yeild obedience unto that rule, rewarding obedience according to the Promise; either by way of Merit, as in the first; or by way of Grace, as in the second Covenant: and punishing disobedience according to the curse.
Those Nations who are without the Law, that is, without the written Word of God, owe obedience unto the Law, being in Adam the root of man-kind, created after the image of God,