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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 is Justification?
A. It is a gracious act of God upon a believer,1 whereby for the righteousness sake of Christ, imputed by God and applied by Faith, he doth freely discharge him from sin and the curse, accept him as righteous with the righteousness of Christ, and acknowledge him to have a right unto eternal life.
Q. What is the efficient cause of Justification?
A. God the Father,1 Son and holy Ghost.