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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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But we are not hence to infer, that we ought to be content to be damned: To justify God is our duty, but to be contented to be damned is no where commanded; nay if taken without limitation, it is prohibited; because to be contented to be damned, is to be contented to be an Enemy, and to sin against God, and that for ever; the condition of the damned including an everlasting state of enmity and sin against God.
But we are not hence to infer, that we ought to be content to be damned: To justifie God is our duty, but to be contented to be damned is no where commanded; nay if taken without limitation, it is prohibited; because to be contented to be damned, is to be contented to be an Enemy, and to sin against God, and that for ever; the condition of the damned including an everlasting state of enmity and sin against God.
Paul, Rom. 9.3. wisheth himself, for his brethren's sake, accursed from the fruit of the love of Christ, not from the love of Christ: he wisheth to be without the vision and fruition of Christ, not to be the Enemy of Christ: he wisheth to perish not as an Enemy of Christ, but as a Saviour to his Brethren: he wiseth to them his Salvation, but he doth not wish unto himself their Damnation. The like is to be judged of Moses request, Exod. 32.32.
Paul, Rom. 9.3. wisheth himself, for his brethrens sake, accursed from the fruit of the love of Christ, not from the love of Christ: he vvisheth to be vvithout the vision and fruition of Christ, not to be the Enemy of Christ: he vvisheth to perish not as an Enemy of Christ, but as a Saviour to his Brethren: he vviseth to them his Salvation, but he doth not vvish unto himself their Damnation. The like is to be judged of Moses request, Exod. 32.32.