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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 Concurse of the first cause, is unto the active principle in the second cause; as the first mover is unto the inferior Orbs: as an impulse, thrust, or put on, is unto a round body, of it self propense to roll: as the Nurses lifting the child up the stairs, is unto the child inclined to go up; or as the leading power, put forth of him that goeth before, is to him that is inclined to follow after: as the Midwife is unto the deliverance of her that is in travail;1 as the wind is unto a vessel under sail, and ready upon the motion of the stream to launch forth: as light is to an open eye, yet in the dark.
The Concurse of the first cause, is unto the active principle in the second cause; as the first mover is unto the inferiour Orbes: as an impulse, thrust, or put on, is unto a round body, of it self propense to rowl: as the Nurses lifting the child up the stairs, is unto the child inclined to go up; or as the leading power, put forth of him that goeth before, is to him that is inclined to follow after: as the Midwife is unto the deliverance of her that is in travail;1 as the wind is unto a vessel under sail, and ready upon the motion of the stream to lanch forth: as light is to an open eye, yet in the dark.
- 1The Necessithereof in respect of the second cause. Vide Epist. ad Ctesiphontem advers. Pelagium. Item Dialog. adv. pelag. librum primum. Hiero, Epist. To. 2.
The Necessity of the concurrence of the first cause with the second in the operations thereof, appears thus.