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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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For our better understanding of this Moral Justice of God, in respect of man: Consider, 1. That nothing can be due from God to man as of himself. 2. That which is due from God to man, is from the free and mere good pleasure of God.1 3. That this good pleasure, or Will of God, is the Rule of Righteousness. 4. That God proceeding to Execution, according to this Rule of Righteousness constituted by his good pleasure, can do no wrong.
For our better understanding of this Moral Justice of God, in respect of man: Consider, 1. That nothing can be due from God to man as of himself. 2. That which is due from God to man, is from the free and meer good pleasure of God.1 3. That this good pleasure, or Will of God, is the Rule of Righteousness. 4. That God proceeding to Execution, according to this Rule of Righteousness constituted by his good pleasure, can do no wrong.
- 1Non enti nihil debetur nam valet argumentū, est id cui aliquid d•betur, Ergo est. Twiss. ubi supra.Non enti nihil debetur nam valet argumentū, est id cui aliquid d•betur, Ergo est. Twiss. ubi supra.
Nothing can be due from God to man as of himself; the creature of it self being a mere nothing, and God being all: he cannot become a debtor to the creature, either of good, or evil; otherwise then he is pleased to make himself a ⟨p. 147⟩debtor. Should God be looked at as a necessary Debtor unto the creature, it must either be to the creature not yet in being, or to the creature in actual being; but he cannot be a Debtor to the creature yet not in being; for to it nothing can be due but Creation, and that should be due unto nothing. Thence it would follow, that God were bound to create every creature that were possible to be created, and that also from Eternity.