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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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See then, and be astonished at that heap of transgression and confusion in this opinion, that denieth the Efficiency of the second cause: It is against all experience, against the whole order of the creature; it takes away the vegetative, sensible, and rational souls, with all other operations; it takes away all difference between creatures in those respects: it alloweth man and devils to do what they will: it denieth that there is either obedience, or sin; Heaven or hell:1 or that Christ is a Saviour: yea, upon point it denieth that there is either man, or Angel, yea, or Christ himself.
See then, and be astonished at that heap of transgression and confusion in this opinion, that denyeth the Efficiency of the second cause: It is against all experience, against the whole order of the creature; it takes away the vegetative, sensible, and rational souls, with all other operations; it takes away all difference between creatures in those respects: it alloweth man and devils to do what they will: it denyeth that there is either obedience, or sin; Heaven or hell:1 or that Christ is a Saviour: yea, upon point it denyeth that there is either man, or Angel, yea, or Christ himself.
- 1Sic itaque administrat omni • quae creavit, ut etiam ipsa proprios exercere, & agere actus sinat. Aug. de Civit. Dei. cap. 30. Una est actio Dei, & creaturaerespeclu operis non a• tem modi agendi. Alsted. Tom. 3. Metaph. Pars 1. cap. 16.Sic itaque administrat omni • quae creavit, ut etiam ipsa proprios exercere, & agere actus sinat. Aug. de Civit. Dei. cap. 30. Ʋna est actio Dei, & creaturaerespeclu operis non a• tem modi agendi. Alsted. Tom. 3. Metaph. Pars 1. cap. 16.