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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.
Q. What is the distinction of the two natures?
A. That whereby the two natures remain ⟨p. 30⟩distinct in him, both in themselves and in their properties.
Q. What is the personal union of them?
A. That whereby the second person in the Trinity,1 viz. the Divine Essence subsisting in the relation of the Son, assumed the Manhood like unto us in all things, sin only excepted, and the manner of its subsistence; for the Manhood never subsisted but in the Godhead, from which substantial coupling together both of the Divine and Humane nature, both natures make but one person.
A. That whereby the second person in the Trinity,1 viz. the Divine Essence subsisting in the relation of the Son, assumed the Manhood like unto us in all things, sin only excepted, and the maner of its subsistence; for the Manhood never subsisted but in the Godhead, from which substantial coupling together both of the Divine and Humane nature, both natures make but one person.