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A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God.…
A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God. Wherein the body of divinity is substantially proposed, and methodically digested, by way of question and answer. And, wherein sundry difficult points, much controverted in these times, are briefly and solidly determined, by that reverend and learned divine, Mr. John Norton, teacher of the church of God at Ipswich in New-England. Feb. 4. 1647. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by John Field for Edmund Paxton, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Catechism › Chapter 2: Hitherto of the Essence: now Of the Subsistence of GOD.
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.
Q. What do you gather from thence; viz. that the whole Divine Essence subsists in every person?
A. 1. That all the Divine Attributes are common and predicate of every person. 2. All the Names that are proper to God, are common to every person. 3. That all the works of God which are upon the creature, are truly predicated of every person. 4. That Divine worship is due to every person. 5. That all the persons are equal.
Q. How doth a person differ from the Essence?
A. As the relation or manner of any being or thing is distinguished from the thing it self.
A. As the relation or maner of any being or thing is distinguished from the thing it self.