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A brief catechismA brief catechisme
A brief catechism containing the doctrine of Godliness [sic], or of living unto God. / By John Norton, teacher of the church at Boston in New-England.A brief catechisme containing the doctrine of Godlines [sic], or of living unto God. / By John Norton, teacher of the church at Boston in New-England.
printed by S.G. and M.J. i.e, 1660
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. The distinction of the two natures,1 viz. Divine and Humane, and the union of them both into one person in him.
Q. What is the union of the two Natures in one person?
A. 1That whereby the second Person in the Trinity [ viz. the Divine Essence subsisting in the relation of the Son] assumed the Manhood like unto us in all things sin only excepted, & the manner of its subsistence, for the manhood ever subsisted but in the Godhead from wch union of the Divine & Humane nature, both Natures make but one Person in him.