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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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1. The Conviction of the Holiness and Spiritualness of the Law, is that Work of the Spirit, whereby the Soul is enlightened to see the Conformity of the Command unto the Will of God: whether we understand by command the Precept concerning the not eating of the Tree of Life, or the Decalogue prescribed unto man in innocency, as the rule of life, and manners; Therefore called the Moral Law, or any other Commandment of God; Ceremonial, Judicial, or whatsoever: This conviction is called the coming of the Commandment. Rom. 7.9. For I was alive without the Law once, but when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I dyed: It causeth a Doctrinal Approbation thereof. The Law is h ly, and the Commandment holy, and just, and good. The Precept is holy, the Curse is just, the Promise is good. I consent unto the Law that it is good.
1. The Conviction of the Holiness and Spiritualness of the Law, is that Work of the Spirit, whereby the Soul is enlightened to see the Conformity of the Command unto the Will of God: whether we understand by command the Precept concerning the not eating of the Tree of Life, or the Decalogue prescribed unto man in innocency, as the rule of life, and manners; Therefore called the Moral Law, or any other Commandement of God; Ceremonial, Judicial, or whatsoever: This conviction is called the coming of the Commandement. Rom. 7.9. For I was alive without the Law once, but when the Commandement came, sin revived, and I dyed: It causeth a Doctrinal Approbation thereof. The Law is h ly, and the Commandement holy, and just, and good. The Precept is holy, the Curse is just, the Promise is good. I consent unto the Law that it is good.
2. Conviction of Sin, is the conscience of our transgressing of this holy Law: Sin is considered in respect of its nature, the kinds of it, and the dominion of it. Sin is the transgression of the Law, 1 John 3.4