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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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The Jews in the Captivity of Babylon (a figure of the captivity of sin) as they were abundantly sensible of their inability to deliver themselves out of Babylon before God returned their Captivity, so were they sensible of the great Truth figured thereby, namely, their perishing condition under the ⟨p. 156⟩captivity of sin, before God doth put into them the spirit o life, Ezek. 37.11.
The Jews in the Captivity of Babylon (a figure of the captivity of sin) as they were abundantly sensible of their inability to deliver themselves out of Babylen before God returned their Captivity, so were they sensible of the great Truth figured thereby, namely, their perishing condition under the ⟨p. 156⟩captivity of sin, before God doth put into them the spirit o life, Ezek. 37.11.
Those sinners, over whose repentance there is joy in Heaven, are such sinners, who before they repented, felt a need of repentance, Luke 15.7. The other ninety nine; and that one, cannot be opposed in respect of the simple necessity of repentance, (for that was the condition of them all, they were all without it, and so all needed it,) but in respect of the sensibleness of the need of repentance: so only, that one needed it, but the ninety nine are said to need no repentance, that is, not to be sensible of their need of it. The like we have Mat. 9.13. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The opposition is not between them as they were simply sinners, for so they were alike; but as they were such sinners, that is, as whole and sick sinners. So also