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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 6: Hitherto of the fitness to be a Redeemer: now Of the parts of Redemption.
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 the sitting at the right hand of God?
A. Tis that state of the person of Christ,1 wherein he is set by the Father in the highest degree of his exaltation, being head of his Church, and King and Governor of all things.
Q. How many parts are there of this his Session?
A. Two: the first is double; 1. His Divine glory in that estate proceeding from the God-head dwelling in the Manhood. 2. Is that eminent, but created and inherent glory with and in the Manhood, by which he is lifted up above all creatures.