A89737:497
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Necessity of the concurrence of the first cause with the second in the operations thereof, appears thus.
All creatures depend upon God in respect of their Being, Conservation, and Operation: For in him we live, and move, and have our being, Acts 17.28. We have our being, there is our dependence in respect of our Creation; we live, there is our dependence in respect of our Conservation; we move, there is our dependence in respect of our Operation. Creatures ⟨p. 107⟩depend no less upon God in respect of operations, then in respect of their beings; because the operations of things in both instants, viz. both of being and of operation, are equally beings of participation.
All creatures depend upon God in respect of their Being, Conservation, and Operation: For in him we live, and move, and have our being, Acts 17.28. We have our being, there is our dependance in respect of our Creation; we live, there is our dependance in respect of our Conservation; we move, there is our dependance in respect of our Operation. Creatures ⟨p. 107⟩depend no less upon God in respect of operations, then in respect of their beings; because the operations of things in both instants, viz. both of being and of operation, are equally beings of participation.
2. From the perfection of the first Cause; such is the nature of the first Cause being God, and the nature of the second cause being a creature, as that thence necessarily followeth the amplitude of Perfection in the first Cause, and a universal and subordinate dependence in the second cause in respect of its efficiency. In this regard Plato called the second causes the instruments of the first Cause; which though in some respect it holdeth not,