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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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But Rom. 7.4. we are said to be dead to the Law, that we may be married unto Christ. Ergo. There seemeth to be some saving qualification before faith.
Answ. This Text, in that it seemeth to occasion the most considerable Objection, calleth for the more diligence in the clearing of it. The Apostle, in answer to an Objection made in the person of the believing Romans (against the great service of yielding of themselves unto God by obedience, whereunto they were exhorted) taken from the fear of the dominion of sin, Chap. 6. vers. 14. having encouraged them with an unanswerable and assuring Argument taken from their present condition; 1. Negatively, for you are not under the Law: 2. Affirmatively, but under grace, in the same vers. He (having also in the following part of the Chapter provided against the abuse of the latter part of his Answer, by removing an abominable Inference, erroneously gathered therefrom, vers. 15.) in the beginning of the seventh Chapt. resumeth the first, that is, the negative part of his Answer, concerning their not being under the Law; illustrating and carrying on his argumentation, by way of comparison, fetched from the example of marriage, obliging the wife unto her husband during the term of his life, and no longer.
Answ. This Text, in that it seemeth to occasion the most considerable Objection, calleth for the more diligence in the clearing of it. The Apostle, in answer to an Objection made in the person of the beleeving Romans (against the great service of yeilding of themselves unto God by obedience, whereunto they were exhorted) taken from the fear of the dominion of sin, Chap. 6. vers. 14. having encouraged them with an unanswerable and assuring Argument taken from their present condition; 1. Negatively, for you are not under the Law: 2. Affirmatively, but under grace, in the same vers. He (having also in the following part of the Chapter provided against the abuse of the latter part of his Answer, by removing an abominable Inference, erroneously gathered therefrom, vers. 15.) in the beginning of the seventh Chapt. resumeth the first, that is, the negative part of his Answer, concerning their not being under the Law; illustrating and carrying on his argumentation, by way of comparison, fetched from the example of marriage, obliging the wife unto her husband during the term of his life, and no longer.