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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.
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.
A. They are Essential. Personal. Personal after a manner.
A. They are Essential. Personal. Personal after a maner.
Q. What do you mean by the Essential works of God?
A. Such works as do proceed from the Divine Essence, which is common to Father, Son and holy Ghost, and whose object is the creature.
Q. What do you mean by the personal works of God?
A. Such works as proceed from any of the persons working according to their personal properties; viz. for the Father to beget, the ⟨p. 22⟩Son to be begotten, and the holy Ghost to proceed.