A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God.…

Name: A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God.…
Author: John Norton

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.

John Norton 1606–1663London: printed by John Field for Edmund Paxton, 1648

63, [1] p. · 11k words · Wing N1315 · ESTC R204872

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Catechism › Chapter 1: Of the Sufficiency, and so of the Essence of GOD.

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CHAP. I. Of the Sufficiency, and so of the Essence of GOD.

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Q. What is Divinity?

Q. WHat is Divinity?

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Ans. The Doctrine of godliness,¹ or living to God.

1Rom. 6.11.

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Q. How many parts hath it?

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A. Two, Faith in God. Obedience unto God.¹

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CHAP. I. Of the Sufficiency, and so of the Essence of GOD.

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