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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We deceive our selves, in thinking we ascribe unto God, if we do not ascribe unto him in his own way.
This one thing I desire the cordial Reader would weigh, viz that the Satisfaction of Christ undertaken for us sinners, could not have availed, if there had not been some foregoing conjunction between us and Christ; namely, such, whereby he was designed of God, that he should be the Head of the Body whereof we are member. Dr Ames. | Hoc unum perpendat venom cordatus Lector,1 sat factionem illā Christi, pro•nobis nocent•bus susceptam, valere non potuisse, nisi aliqua antecedente inter nos & Christum conjunctione; tali scilicet, quâ designatus erat a Deo, ut caput esset c rporis, cujus nos sumus membra. All saving blessings are said to be communicated unto us from Christ, as in an Head. Dr Ames. | Omnia salutari nobis dicuntur communicari a Christo, ut in Capite.2 Cain (saith Junius) was not partaker of a Saviour as a Saviour, neither is any ungodly man partaker of him. | Cain servator•s non fuit particeps, •ut servatoris, nec particeps, ejus est impius quisquam. Man is no partaker of a Saviour, but of the works of a Saviour; but the faithful are not only partakers of his works, but also of the Saviour himself. Junius. | Homo non est particeps Servatoris,3 sed operum a Servatore; fideles autē non solum participes operum, sed ipsius Servatoris sunt.
This one thing I desire the cordial Reader would weigh, viz that the Satisfaction of Christ undertaken for us sinners, could not have availed, if there had not been some foregoing conjunction between us and Christ; namely, such, whereby he was designed of God, that he should be the Head of the Body whereof we are member. Dr Ames. | Hoc unum perpendat venim cordatus Lector,