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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.
Catechism › Chapter 1: Of the Sufficiency, and so of the Essence of GOD.
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 do you understand by the essence of God?
A. The essence of God absolutely considered, is that one pure and mere act by which God is God.
A. The essence of God absolutely considered, is that one pure and meer act by which God is God.
Q. How may we further know what his essence is?
A. Because through weakness of our understanding, we cannot in any measure apprehend it by one act; it hath pleased God to give unto himself many Names and Attributes, by the help of which we may the better conceive thereof.
Q. Which are those Names?