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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89734	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.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1648 (1648)	Wing N1315; Thomason E1178_5; ESTC R204872	25,055	63

Gen. 1.20 21 22 23. Moon and Stars Q. Wh●t were the works of the fifth day A. The Fishes that live in the water and the fowls that live in the air Q. What are the works of the sixth day A. The creatures living upon the earth Gen. 1.24 25 26 viz. creeping things Beasts Man Q. How did God create man A. In his own image created he him Gen. 1.27 Gen. 5.1 2. male and female created he them Q. What was the image of God according to which man was created A. That likeness by which man did eminently resemble his Maker in such a measure as was convenient to his nature Q. In what things did this image of God in man principally consist A. In four Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 Eccl. 7.29 Psal 8.6 viz. 1. The nature of the soul 2. The conformity of the whole man unto Gods will 3. The original liberty of his will to good 4. His dominion over the creatures Q. What is the Soul A. The Soul is a spiritual incorporeal and immortal substance created by God of nothing immediately infused into the body as the proper form thereof by which man is liveth is sensible moveth understandeth willeth and is affected and when it shall be separated from the body it still remaineth immortal subsisting by it self to be reunited to the body at the Resurrection there to abide for ever Q. What is the Providence of God Ioh. 5.17 Psal 76.10 Eph. 1.6 Phil. 2.10 11. Rom. 8.28 Matt. 10.29 30. A. It is an external work of God by which he preserveth and so ordereth and disposeth of all his works and the actions thereof as maketh most for his glory and the good of his Elect. Q. How many parts are there of his Providence A. Two The keeping of his creatures in their being and vertues Acts 11.28 Isa 47.7 Psal 75.7 8. The governing of them to their several ends Q. How is this government divided A. Into common belonging to all his works special belonging to Angels Men. Q. In Gods special government of Angels and Men what is to be considered A. His prescribing to them a Law and Deut. 26.16 17 18. Rom. 9.19 ordering the events that were to follow thereupon Q. Touching the ordering of the events concerning man what are you to consider A. Two things Rom. 5.19 1 Cor. 15.21 1. His Apostacy or fall which was the transgression of the Law prescribed to him by God 2. His Recovery Q. What are there to be considered in his Apostacy A. The transgression it self Gen. 3.6 The propagation of it Q. But for your better understanding of this point what may you further consider concerning the transgression A. 1. The sinfulness of the transgression Gen. 2.17 2. The causes 3. The consequents thereof Q. What are you to consider concerning the causes of this transgression A. 1. Negatively Iam. 1.13 God was not the cause of it 2. Affirmatively Gen. 3.1 3.6 the External cause was the instigation of Satan Internal the swerving of the will of our first Parents from the Will of God Q. What are you to consider concerning the consequents or events thereof A. The Guilt Gen. 2.17 3.10 Punishment viz. Death a great part of which death is original sin 1 Cor. 15.21 22. whence actual sin floweth as an act from the habit Q. What is Original sin A. The hereditary and habitual enmity and contrariety of the whole nature of man unto the Law of God Rom. 7.17 20. Heb. 12.1 Gen. 6.5 Rom. 8.7 Ier. 2.13 consisting in aversness from all good and propensness to all evil Q. What is Actual sin A. It is the swerving of the act of man either in thought Rom. 7.16 17. 2 Cor. 10.5 Mat. 12.37 Eccl. 12.14 word deed from the Law of God Q. How many sorts are there of Actual sin A. Two sins of Omission Commission Q. What is the propagation of sin A. The conveyance of the actual sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit Iob 14.4 Psa 51.5 Rom. 5.14 Eph. 2.3 and of original sin to all his posterity proceeding from him by ordinary generation together with the guilt and punishment thereof Q. After what maner is all this propagated A. The Instrumental cause Gen. 5.3 Psa 51.5 Iob 14.4 Ioh. 3.6 Rom. 12.5 is the seed of our next Parents Blameable cause is Adams sin made ours by imputation and by real communication and it may seem by some kinde of participation Unblameable cause is the righteousness of God Gen. 2.17 not as the Author of nature but the Avenger of sin Q. After what order is sin derived to man A. First the actual sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit thence proceedeth original sin as an effect from the cause thence actual as an act from the habit with the guilt and penalties all hanging one upon another Q. What is the way by which God reveals this misery A. By the moral Law Rom. 7.7 Q. How doth God reveal this misery by the law A. First Rom. 3.20 Isa 4.4 Rom. 8.15 2 Tim. 1.7 by discovering sin as sin Secondly by the works of conviction bondage terror all in their measure Q. What are we to think of man in this estate according to the Scripture A. That he is wholly dead in sin the childe of wrath and disobedience CHAP. IV. Hitherto of Mans Apostacy or Fall from GOD now Of Mans recovery the Redeemer and the Person of Christ Q. VVHat is mans recovery Rom. 6.14 Rom. 8.2 Gal. 3.10 Acts. 26.18 A. It is the restoring of him from the state of sin and death unto the estate of grace and life Q. How many parts are there of mans recovery A. Two Redemption Application of it Q. What is Redemption A. It is the freeing of man from the bondage of the Curse Sin and Satan into the liberty of the grace of God in Jesus Christ by the laying down of a price Q. Who is the Redeemer 1 Tim. 2.5 6. 2 Cor. 15.21 A. Jesus Christ Q. What is Jesus Christ A. God viz. the second person in the Trinity and Man in one person anointed to be a King Priest and Prophet unto his people Briefly he is God-Man Mediator between God and man Q. What things are chiefly to be considered in Jesus Christ A. 1. His fitness to be a Redeemer 2. The parts of Redemption Q. In what doth this fitness to be a Redeemer consist A. In his person and office Q. What is to be known concerning the person of Christ A. 1. The distinction of the two natures Matth. 1.23 Ioh. 1.14 Col. 2.9 2. The personal union of them in him 3. The effects and consequents of this personal union Q. What is the distinction of the two natures A. That whereby the two natures remain distinct in him both in themselves and in their properties Q. What is the personal union of them A. That whereby the second person in the