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.ImprimaturJOSEPH CARYL.London, Printed by John Field for Edmund Paxton, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls chain, over against the Castle Tavern near to the Doctors Commons. 1468.Title page of A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God.…, London, 1648A brief and excellent treatise containing the doctrine of godliness, or living unto God.…John Norton, 1648

Hitherto of the Person: now Of the office of the Lord Jesus Christ.Hitherto of the Person: now Of the office of the Lord Iesus Christ.

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CHAP. V. Hitherto of the Person: now Of the office of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Q. What is the Mediatorly office of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Q. VVHat is the Mediatorly office of the Lord Jesus Christ?

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A. 'Tis that work of mediation committed unto the Son by the Father,¹ accepted readily and freely by the Son, thereby procuring the application of the grace of God to the Elect, and uniting and reconciling the Elect to God, and working all things pertaining to their everlasting good and salvation.

1Heb. 5.4, 5, 6. Joh. 6.27 John 10.16. Phil. 2.6 Isa. 53.10Heb. 5.4, 5, 6. Ioh. 6.27 Iohn 10.16. Phil. 2.6 Isa. 53.10

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