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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.
A. First, the actual sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit; thence proceedeth original sin as an effect from the cause; thence actual, as an act from the habit, with the guilt and penalties, all hanging one upon another.
Q. What is the way by which God reveals this misery?
Q. How doth God reveal this misery by the law?
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