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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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To these six Heads may be referred the chief Objections, striking at the Justice of divine Government: the Answers whereunto take in order thus.
1. The Permission of sin for a much better good, then sin is an evil (of which in the Doctrine of the Decree, Chap. 4.) is no way repugnant unto the Justice of God, held forth in the Law; whereby God hath not bound himself from the permission of sin. The punishment of transgression contained in the curse (in case of the commission of sin) is so far from opposing, as it rather supposeth the permission thereof. 2. As God hath not bound himself by the Law from the permission of sin, so neither hath he bound himself to the punishing of it immediately upon the commission thereof. The set season for the full punishment of the sins of the Reprobate, is not before the time of death, and the Day of judgement, till then God hath left himself arbitrary, and is various in his Dispensations; no man taxeth the Judge, because the offender remaineth unpunished, until the Assizes. 3. It is a truth that all things come alike to all; and that ⟨p. 120⟩there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; yet we are to consider,
1. Though it be so oftentimes, yet it is not so always.