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.
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- 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.
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- Norton, John, 1606-1663.
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- 1468 [i.e. 1648]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89734.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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unto the righteousness of God, humbled him∣self, and became obedient to the death, even the death of the cross.
A. Two,
- Life
- Death
Q. What is the exaltation of Christ?
A. That state of the person of Christ, wherein as Mediator God-Man after his hu∣miliation he arose from the dead, ascended into 05 heaven, and sits at the right hand of God.
Q. What are the parts of it?
A. Three,
Q. What is the sitting at the right hand of God?
A. Tis that state of the person of Christ, wherein he is set by the Father in the highest degree of his exaltation, being head of his Church, and King and Governor of all things.
Q. How many parts are there of this his Session?
A. Two: the first is double;
- 1. His Divine glory in that estate proceeding from the God-head dwelling in the Manhood.
- 2. Is that eminent, but created and inherent glory with and in the Manhood, by which he is lifted up above all creatures.
The second part, is the actual administration of this kingdom.
Notes
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Rom. 4.25.
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Phil. 2.8.
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2 Cor. 8.9. Phil. 2 8. Gal. 3.13
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Iohn 2.10. Iohn 10.18. Rom. 1.4. Acts 1.9 Heb. 10.12.
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Rom 8.34.
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Eph. 4.10. Phil. 2.9, 10. Col. 1.11.18. Matth. 28.18.