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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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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, Isai. 49.9. The Law could not do it, Rom. 8.3. and 3.20. Man is without strength, Rom. 5.6. To this purpose you may frequently observe in the Scripture the soul in this condition compared to a prisoner, sin unto a prison, God unto a Judge. See Isai. 42.7. and 49.8, 9. and 61.1. Luke 4.18. Rom. 11.32. Gal. 3.22, 25.
To justify God, is to acknowledge, 1.1