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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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A. Three things: 1. A double consideration of the second person of the Trinity. 2. The consideration of the nature of a person. 3. What it is for the Manhood to receive its personality from the second person in the Trinity.
Q. How doth it appear that there is cause for a double consideration of the second person in the Trinity?
A. 1. The second person in the Trinity considered in himself, is God and not Man; but being considered in personal union with the Manhood, he is God-Man. 2. That the second person should be of the Father by coeternal generation, was absolutely necessary; but that the second person should be united unto the Humane nature, was not absolutely necessary, but proceeded from the free pleasure of God: Or that the second person should be, was absolutely necessary; that he should be incarnate, was arbitrary, not necessary. 3. The second person as considered in himself, is of the Father, not of the holy Ghost: The second person considered in personal union with the Manhood, is of the Father, Son and holy Ghost. 4. The second person considered in himself, is equal unto the Father; but considered as united to the Manhood, is inferior to the Father in respect of his voluntary dispensation. 5. The second person considered in himself, was of the object of Faith unto Adam in the first Covenant, who was to believe in God the Father, Son and holy Ghost; but the second person incarnate God-Man Mediator, was ⟨p. 32⟩not of the object of Faith in the first, though he be in the second Covenant.