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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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The Distinction premised; the Minor, scil. that, hearing by which faith is wrought in the soul, is a saving work) is denied; as labouring of an Equivocation in the word Saving: which the question means formally, but the Argument intends causally, or efficiently.
The Distinction premised; the Minor, scil. that, hearing by which faith is wrought in the soul, is a saving work) is denyed; as labouring of an Equivocation in the word Saving: which the question means formally, but the Argument intends causally, or efficiently.
Doctor Ames (out of whom this Argument is taken) never intended it to this purpose: who (as he affirms in the same tract elsewhere; that other preparatory dispositions have not a certain and infallible connection with salvation: so) in this very place affirms, that that hearing of the word by which faith is wrought, hath [scil. to us,] no necessary connection with salvation:1 for who (saith he) can promise before hand that God will give faith thereby: and concludes it therefore to be saving, not formally, but causally; viz. instrumentally.
Doctour Ames (out of whom this Argument is taken) never intended it to this purpose: who (as he affirms in the same tract elsewhere; that other preparatory dispositions have not a certain and infallible connexion with salvation: so) in this very place affirms, that that hearing of the word by which faith is wrought, hath [scil. to us,] no necessary connexion with salvation:1 for who (saith he) can promise before hand that God will give faith thereby: and concludes it therefore to be saving, not formally, but causally; viz. instrumentally.
- 1Disp. Theolog. de Praep. peccat. ad conver.