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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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Man was not of the Counsel of God,1 at the making of the Decree: Who hath been his Counsellor? Rom. 11.34. Neither can man in this life trace God in innumerable steps of his Execution thereof; His ways are past finding out, ver. 33. The Path of a ship upon the Sea, after a small space of time, is not to be tracked by him that followeth it. The way of Providence is a deeper Sea; it is as high as Heaven, what canst thou do? deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? The measure thereof is larger then the Earth, and broader then the Sea, Job 11.8, 9. Then I beheld all the works of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the Sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it, Eccles. 8.17.
Man was not of the Counsel of God,1 at the making of the Decree: Who hath been his Counseller? Rom. 11.34. Neither can man in this life trace God in innumerable steps of his Execution thereof; His ways are past finding out, ver. 33. The Path of a ship upon the Sea, after a small space of time, is not to be trackt by him that followeth it. The way of Providence is a deeper Sea; it is as high as Heaven, what canst thou do? deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? The measure thereof is larger then the Earth, and broader then the Sea, Job 11.8, 9. Then I beheld all the works of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the Sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it, Eccles. 8.17.
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