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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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It determineth the second cause (say they) negatively,1 not by way of influence: which mystical sense of the Jesuits. Hurtado (himself also a Jesuit) opens by a familiar comparison, thus: As (saith he) in case you can write with two pens, and I holding one of them, hinder you writing with it, permitting you to write with the other: this permission compelleth not you to write, you are free to both: but if you write, it must be with that pen which I leave, not with that which I hold in my hand.
It determineth the second cause (say they) negatively,1 not by way of influence: which mystical sence of the Jesusuits. Hurtado (himself also a Jesuite) opens by a familiar comparison, thus: As (saith he) in case you can write with two pens, and I holding one of them, hinder you writing with it, permitting you to write with the other: this permission compelleth not you to write, you are free to both: but if you write, it must be with that pen which I leave, not with that which I hold in my hand.
- 1Hurtado. Phys. disp. 10. Sect. 4. N. 53.
7. The Doctrine of the Arminians, 1who with the Jesuits yield a concurrence of the Spirit to be necessary unto each act of obedience: yet so, as they make it subsequent, not antecedent; following, not fore-going: lackeying, not leading of the operations of the Will. Whence according to them the beginning of every good work, or act of new-obedience, is from the creature.
7. The Doctrine of the Arminians, 1who with the Jesuites yeild a concurrence of the Spirit to be necessary unto each act of obedience: yet so, as they make it subsequent, not antecedent; following, not fore-going: lackquying, not leading of the operations of the Will. Whence according to them the beginning of every good work, or act of new-obedience, is from the creature.