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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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Gods judicial acts of Providence are oftentimes such in this life, whence he convinceth the beholders, that he governeth amongst the most ungoverned of the sons of men: so that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth, Psal. 58.11.
Not mans reason, but Gods Word, is the Interpreter of Gods Works: Whence, in the Psalmists temptation, we might attain the Psalmists satisfaction, did we seek it with the like spirit: When I sought to know this, it was too painful for me, till I entered into the sanctuary of the L rd, Psal. 73.16, 17.
If yet we cannot see that God governeth according to his Law, nor how his Word and Works of Providence do agree, the error is in our Judgment, not in his Government.
We know that God is just in all his ways, though the reason of the Justice of some of his ways, we know not. That Gods Word and his Works agree, is manifest unto us; though how they agree, is sometimes hidden from us.