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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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Object. I am unworthy, &c.
Answ. As if you should say, I have no merit, therefore God will have no mercy. There is no salvation for me by the Law, therefore there is no salvation for me by the Gospel.
'Tis most true, we have no merit; 'tis as true, Christ hath enough.
If you look at God with a legal eye, so the least sinner ⟨p. 217⟩is uncapable, but if you look at him with an Evangelical eye, so the greatest sinner is capable of mercy. This Objection is so far from being a real Objection, as that the sense of our unworthiness renders us so much the more capable: the contrary apprehension keeps us (whilst such) uncapable of mercy. Briefly, it is a legal, and unworthy objection, and argueth sad, shameful, and lamentable ignorance of the Gospel.
If you look at God with a legal eye, so the least sinner ⟨p. 217⟩