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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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Ans. No: yet the more distinctness, the better: and some distinctness in respect of some of the principal parts thereof, according to the ordinary Dispensation of God, seemeth necessary: as namely, the conviction of the sinfulness of sin, the conviction of the guilt of sin; i. e. that it justly binds over the sinner unto punishment, impossibility of salvation by the Law, revelation of the object of faith: i. e. God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ, God-man in one Person, set forth to be a Mediator according to the Gospel of free-grace. Some sense of our lost estate, looking up unto Jesus Christ, not only as come to seek and save them that are lost, but also as able to seek and to save, waiting upon him in a broken-hearted, and diligent use of means, until we be made partakers of his free saving grace.
Ans. No: yet the more distinctness, the better: and some distinctness in respect of some of the principal parts thereof, according to the ordinary Dispensation of God, seemeth necessary: as namely, the conviction of the sinfulness of sin, the conviction of the guilt of sin; i. e. that it justly binds over the sinner unto punishment, impossibility of salvation by the Law, revelation of the object of faith: i. e. God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ, God-man in one Person, set forth to be a Mediatour according to the Gospel of frec-grace. Some sense of our lost estate, looking up unto Jesus Christ, not only as come to seek and save them that are lost, but also as able to seek and to save, waiting upon him in a broken-hearted, and diligent use of means, until we be made partakers of his free saving grace.
Quest. 2. What measure of Preparatory Work is necessary to conversion?
Ans. As the greatest measure hath no necessary connection with salvation, so the least measure puts the soul into a preparatory capacity, or Ministerial next-disposition to the