A89732:1020
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 And in this sense the Apostle Paul doth prove that Abraham's faith was accounted to him for righteousness, by a Testimony taken from David, Psa. 32. saying, even as David also describeth the blessedness of that man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works; saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute sin: What other reason can any man else render, why the Apostle should interlace this testimony in this place, but to describe unto us the true manner how Abraham's faith did make him righteous, namely, because by his faith he did apprehend and receive the fathers atonement, by which his sins were forgiven, covered, and not imputed.
Dialogu And in this sense the Apostle Paul doth prove that Abrahams faith was accounted to him for righteousnesse, by a Testimony taken from David, Psa. 32. saying, even as David also describeth the blessednesse of that man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works; saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute sinne: What other reason can any man else render, why the Apostle should enterlace this testimony in this place, but to describe unto us the true manner how Abrahams faith did make him righteous, namely, because by his faith he did apprehend and receive the fathers atonement, by which his sins were forgiven, covered, and not imputed.
Answ. We readily acknowledge that Paul Rom. 4.3. proveth that Abraham's faith was accounted to him for righteousness out of Moses Gen. 15.6. the scope of the Apostle in citing Psal. 32.1, 2. is not to prove the personal justification of Abraham by faith, but to prove justification in the general both