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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. Three: 1. Vocation: 2. Union: 3. Communion.
Q. What is Vocation?
A. It is the infusion of a principal of life (or as some speak,1 of the habit of Faith) by the spirit into a lost soul, in measure sensible of its inability and enmity to believe, repent or do any good: by the means of, and together with the external call of the Gospel, in which work the soul notwithstanding any preparatory work, is merely passive; i. e. a mere passive receiver.
A. It is the infusion of a principal of life (or as some speak,1 of the habit of Faith) by the spirit into a lost soul, in measure sensible of its inability and enmity to believe, repent or do any good: by the means of, and together with the external call of the Gospel, in which work the soul notwithstanding any preparatory work, is meerly passive; i. e. a meer passive receiver.
- 1Eph. 2.1. John 6.63. John 6.64, 65. John 5.41. Rom 11.28, 32.Eph. 2.1. Iohn 6.63.