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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
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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. After what manner is all this propagated?
Q. After what maner is all this propagated?
A. The Instrumental cause,1 is the seed of our next Parents. Blameable cause, is Adams sin made ours by imputation, and by real communication, and it may seem by some kind of participation. Unblameable cause, is the righteousness of God,2 not as the Author ⟨p. 28⟩of nature, but the Avenger of sin.
A. The Instrumental cause,1 is the seed of our next Parents. Blameable cause, is Adams sin made ours by imputation, and by real communication, and it may seem by some kinde of participation. Unblameable cause, is the righteousness of God,2 not as the Author ⟨p. 28⟩of nature, but the Avenger of sin.