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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 are the parts of it?
A. Three,1 Prophetical Priestly Kingly parts thereof.
Q. Why are they mentioned in this number and order?
A. There is a threefold reason of it, in respect of Man in whom there is Ignorance Alienation from God Impotency to return healed by his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office. The application of salvation made known Procured Applied in his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office. The execution of this office, He taught He suffered He entered into heaven in his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office.