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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.
A. 1. By presenting his merit to the Father. 2. By the application of it by his Word and Spirit. 3. By making intercession in our hearts. 4. By making of our persons and actions accepted before God.
Q. What is the Kingly part of his Mediatorly office?
A. 'Tis that part of the Mediatorly office,1 in which that which Christ makes known as a Prophet, and purchased as a Priest, he doth now apply and establish by his Spirit as a King to ⟨p. 36⟩the Elect; together with the everlasting overthrow of his and their enemies.
- 1Rev. 118. 1 Cor. 15.24, 25.
Q. What are the parts of this Kingly part of his office?