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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 a person?
A. A person is the complete and lastly perfecting subsistence of a reasonable nature.
A. A person is the compleat and lastly perfecting subsistence of a reasonable nature.
Q. What is it for the Manhood to receive its personality from the second person in the Trinity?
A. It is for the manhood from the first moment of its conception (it never having neither subsistence nor consistence of it self) to subsist in the second person of the Trinity; so as the second person in the Trinity and the manhood have two natures, yet but one, and that an increated person.
Q. What are the principal effects and consequents of this personal union unto the Manhood?