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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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| Negamus,1 denique ullam ejusmodi, dispositionem aut praeparationem, que fidem antecedat esse praeviam, cui hujus deny certa promissio à Deo sit facta, cum quicquid non•est ex fide peccatum sit, Rom. 14.23. Et sine fide impossibile sit pla••re Deo, nempè ad salutem, Heb. 11.6. adeo ut homini, ut cunque jam disposito haec grat a sit indebita; cum etiam in hac quacunque disposition, homo sit reus condemnationis. ⟨p. 176⟩Of such faith (namely concerning the certainty of Salvation) we sufficiently understand,2 that the subject is only a Believer of competent understanding. Rivet. | Talis fidei (sc. de certitudine salutis) subjectum satis intelligimus, esse fidelem adultum tantum. Without faith in Christ man abides in condemnation.3 | Extra fidem in Christum, manet homo in condemnation. The privilege concerning the certainty of the subject touching perseverance,4 is indulged not unto a few, but unto all Believers, attributed unto them as Believers; and we aver it to be proper to them after the fourth manner. Britain Divines. | Privilegium quoad cirtitudinem subjecti de perseverantia, indultum est non paucis, sed fidelibus omnibus qua fidelibus attributum; iisque quarto modo proprium astruimus. Faith is a condition,5 faith therefore being put, the promise particularly applied ceaseth to be conditional, and becometh absolute. | Fides est conditio, posità igitur fide, promissio particularitèr applicata, cessat esse conditionata, & fit absoluta. The promise of Salvation,6 as it is made to man a sinner, is conditional, but as it is made unto the Believer, it is absolute, because it supposeth the condition required. | Promissio salutis quâ homini peccatori fit est conditicnata, sed quâ credenti fit est absoluta, quia conditionem requisitam supponit. By this Proposition,