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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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3. The Conviction of Guilt is such a conviction of sin, as doth not only argue the sinner to have offended, but also bindeth over the offender to punishment, according to the Law. Guilt is the debt of the offender. Suffering punishment ⟨p. 145⟩in way of satisfaction, is the payment of that debt.1 The curse of the Law-giver is the bonds of the offender, keeping the sinner unto judgement, as the prisoner is kept until the Assizes. Thus, the Angels guilty of sin, are delivered into everlasting chains of darkness, to be reserved unto the judgement of the great Day. 2 Pet. 2.4. Jude 6. The truth, justice, and power of God, do not only reserve the sinner in safe custody, unto punishment in due time; but also execute that punishment, in the season thereof.
- 1Obligatiopeccatoris ad poenam, dicitur relatus. Kek. Theol. lib. 2. cap. 7.
4. The concluding the soul under sin, is a judicial dispensation; whereby God by the accusation, conviction, and condemnation of the Law, shuts up the soul in the prison of the power, and guilt of sin: From whence without the mercy of God in Christ, there is no escape. For God hath concluded, or shut them up all in the prison of unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all, Rom. 11.32. Concluded under sin, kept under the Law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed, Gal. 3.22, 23. To which prisoners, no Law, nor man, (only he, whom God hath given as a Covenant unto his people) can say, Come forth,