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A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the…
A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousness active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue entitled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the general court.A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousnesse active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue intituled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the generall court.
London: printed by A.M. for Geo. Calvert, 1653
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Dialogu For the God of glory Jesus Christ appeared to him (that is, to Abraham) whilst he dwelt at Ur of the Chaldees, Act. 7.2. no doubt but Jesus Christ did then tell him in what a miserable lost condition he was, and how he should be that seed of the woman that should break the devils head-plot by his sacrifice of Atonement, and how he should thereby procure his Fathers Atonement to all poor broken-hearted sinners. All which Abraham believed, and so his sins were done away by Gods Atonement, which he received by his faith, and so he was made perfectly just and righteous in Gods sight.
Dialogu For the God of glory Iesus Christ appeared to him (that is, to Abraham) whilest he dwelt at Ur of the Caldees, Act. 7.2. no doubt but Iesus Christ did then tell him in what a miserable lost condition he was, and how he should be that seed of the woman that should break tht devils head-plot by his sacrifice of Atonement, and how he should thereby procure his Fathers Atonement to all poor broken-hearted sinners. All which Abraham beleeved, and so his sinnes were done away by Gods Atonement, which he received by his faith, and so he was made perfectly iust and righteous in Gods sight.
Answ. Your often repeating the same thing forceth us to tell you again, that your Atonement is but a fiction, 2. That Scripture Atonement is an effect of our righteousness, not a part, much less the whole thereof. That which Abraham was made perfectly just and righteous by, was that which was accounted unto him for righteousness. That which was accounted unto him for righteousness, was that which he believed, ⟨p. 220⟩namely, the righteousness of Christ his head. The rest that is here said, if rightly understood, is true, if in the sense of the Dialogue, 'tis false. But whether true or false, hitherto all is but said, nothing is proved, as concerning the doctrine of sinners righteousness in the sense of the Dialogue.