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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
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Q. How are the attributes distinguished from the essence?
A. They are not distinguished from the essence really, but notionally; that is, they are not distinguished at all in God, but only to us-ward, according to our manner of conceiving; for every and all the attributes are the Divine essence it self, according to that received proposition, Whatsoever is in God, is God: and this is the reason why some describe every attribute from the essence of God.
A. They are not distinguished from the essence really, but notionally; that is, they are not distinguished at all in God, but onely to us-ward, according to our maner of conceiving; for every and all the attributes are the Divine essence it self, according to that received proposition, Whatsoever is in God, is God: and this is the reason why some describe every attribute from the essence of God.
Q. How many kinds of attributes are there?
Q. How many kindes of attributes are there?
A. Three, Negative. Relative. Positive.