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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

of which that which is proper to the Church under the Gospel is that which we call the power of the Keys Q. How doth instituted worship differ from moral worship A. 1. Moral worship besides its being taught in the first Table may be learned out of the nature of God Instituted worship is founded in the positive Law of God 2. Moral worship continueth unchanged Instituted worship hath been changed being divers before the Law under the Law and under the Gospel 3. Moral worship is perpetual 1 Cor. 13.8 Instituted worship is temporal ending with the world Q. After what order is the worship of God taught in the first Table A. The object of it is taught in the first commandment The means of it in the second commandment The maner of it in the third commandment The time of it in the fourth commandment Q. Which is the first commandment A. Thou shalt have none other Gods before me Exod. 20.3 Q. What is here commanded Deut. 6.45 Matth. 4.10 Ier. 10.25 Rom. 1.21 22 23. 2 Kings 17.33 A. That we worship God and him alone Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All not worshipping of God which is Atheism 2. Worshipping others and not God which is Idolatry 3. Worshipping others together with God which is Polutheism Q. Which is the second commandment A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image c. Exod. 20.4 5 6. Deut. 4.12 12.30 31 32. Q. What is here commanded A. That God is to be worshipped with his own worship onely Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. Contempt of external worship Ezek. 33.31 Luke 19.16 Acts 7.41 Col. 2.18.21 Matt. 15.19 2. All Will-worship 1. Idolatry viz. worshipping God at or in an image by which it is distinguished from that Idolatry forbidden in the first commandment 2. Superstition Q. Which is the third commandment A. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain Exo. 20.7 Deut. 12.5 1 Cor 14.40 26. Mal. 1.11 12 13. Q. What is here commanded A. That we worship God after a due maner inwardly and outwardly and that we use his Name reverently at all times Q. What are we here forbidden A. All irreverence in the worship of God or concerning the use of his name Eccles 5.1 2. as contempt rashness lightness blasphemy c. Q. What are we to understand by the Name of God Ioel 2.32 Exo. 33.19 with 34.6 Exod. 3.14 15. Mal. 1.11 Iohn 17.6 11 12. Psal 8.9 Exod. 20 8 9 10 11. Gè 2.2 3 Act. 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 Rev. 1.10 Gal. 4.10 Col. 2.16 Is 58.13 Gen. 2.2 3. Exod. 16.25 26 30 Rev. 1.10 1 Cor. 16 2. Iohn 20.19 26. Act. 20.7 A. All those things by which God hath made himself known to be as his 1. Essence where are his Names and Attributes 2. Subsistence viz. the Trinity of persons in that one Essence 3. Decree 4. Worship 5. Words 6. Works Q. What is the fourth commandment A. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy c. Q. What are we here commanded A. The setting apart of the seventh Day to the immediate service of God Q. What are we here forbidden A. Any humane institutions of holy-days or holy time The employing of this time in any such way as hinders the worship of the day Q. By what arguments amongst others do you conclude the Morality of the Sabbath A. 1. From the institution of it being before the fall and consequently before the Ceremonial Law 2. Because 't is one of the Ten Commandments which all are the Moral Law 3. The change of the day was by Divine authority Q. What is the subject of the second Table A. Our duty towards our neighbor Q. After what order is our duty towards our neighbor taught A. Concerning his Honor command 5. Life command 6. Chastity command 7. Goods command 8. Good name command 9. Prosperity command 10. Q. Which is the fifth Commandment Exod. 20 12. Eph. 6.2 2 Kings 2.12 2 Kings 2.5 13 14. 1 Pet. 2.7 Rom. 12.10 2 Tim. 3.2 Isa 3.5 Exod. 20 13. Matt. 25.45 1 Ioh. 3.17 Matth. 5.22 viz. The first of the second Table A. Honor thy father and thy Mother Q. What are we here commanded A. That we walk orderly in our calling inwardly acknowledging and outwardly according to rule expressing that honor which is due to superiors equals inferiors according to their several relations Q. What is here forbidden A. All neglect of duty in this kinde Q. Which is the sixth commandment A. Thou shalt not kill Q. What are we here commanded A. The use of all due means that conduce to the good of our neighbor concerning his spiritual and temporal life Q. What are we here forbidden A. The neglect of any due means tending to that end or use or of any means contrary thereunto Exod. 28 14. Thess 4.4 1 Cor. 7.34 1 Thess 4.5 Iob 31.1 Q. Which is the seventh commandment A. Thou shalt not commit adultery Q. What are we here commanded A. The use of all due means for the preservation of our own and our neighbors chastity Q. What are we here forbidden A. All uncleanness together with the means Exod. 20.15 Prov. 22.2 2 Thess 3.12 Luke 3.14 1 Thess 4.6 Prov. 20.10 signs or accessaries thereof or tending thereunto Q. Which is the eighth commandment A. Thou shalt not steal Q. What is here commanded A. That proprieties being kept undisturbed we possess that which is our own not anothers and that without injury unto any Q. What are we here forbidden A All fraudulence and corruptnes in our dealing concerning matters of commutative justice Q. Which is the ninth commandment A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor Exod. 20 16. Psa 15. 2 Eph. 4.25 Deut. 17.6 Psa 12.2 Matt. 26.60 61. Eph. 4.25 Q. What are we here commanded A. To use all due means to know the truth and to bear witness to the known truth being called thereunto Q. What is here forbidden A. All lying by direct false testimony or unlawful ambiguity 2. Concealing the truth we ought to reveal Pro. 24.11 11.3 1 Sam. 1.13 Exod. 20 17. Heb. 13.5 1 Tim. 6.6 Phil. 4.11 Heb. 13.5 Iob. 5.2 3. Revealing the truth we ought to conceal 4. Also whatsoever may do harm to the truth as unjust suspition Q. What is the tenth commandment A. Thou shalt not Covet Q. What are we here commanded A. Contentation in our present estate Q. What are we here forbidden A. Desiring of or envying at the good of our neighbor FINIS

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