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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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Obj. Where there is a Plurality, there is not Simplicity: But in the divine Nature there is a Plurality: therefore.
Ans. The Objection holds, where there is a plurality of Essences, Beings, or things, but not where there is only a plurality of Subsistences. In the divine Nature, though there be a Trinity, therefore a plurality of Subsistences or Persons, yet there is but one Essence: In the Trinity there is distinction, but not composition.
Obj. 2. The Attribute of Simplicity concludes that all the Attributes are God himself, and consequently that there is no inequality amongst them: yet we read, that his tender ⟨p. 7⟩mercies are over all his works; so, as it may seem, Mercy exceeds the other Attributes.
Ans. The meaning is, that his mercy is over, that is, upon all his works; not that Gods Mercy exceeds all his other Attributes, as if one Attribute were greater then another: for all the Attributes of God are equal, not one higher or greater then another, because they are all God himself.