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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.
CHAP. V. Hitherto of the Person: now Of the office of the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAP. V. Hitherto of the Person: now Of the office of the Lord Iesus Christ.
Q. What is the Mediatorly office of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Q. VVHat is the Mediatorly office of the Lord Jesus Christ?
A. 'Tis that work of mediation committed unto the Son by the Father,1 accepted readily and freely by the Son, thereby procuring the application of the grace of God to the Elect, and uniting and reconciling the Elect to God, and working all things pertaining to their everlasting good and salvation.