A89732:1023
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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Answ. If atonement, pardon, and forgiveness be the effect of justifying faith, then they cannot be our righteousness, for that is the object of our justifying faith: Righteousness is before justifying faith as the object is before the act. Atonement is after it as the effect is after the cause; to say the cause and the effect is the same, is to say a thing is before and after it self.
Answ. If atonement, pardon, and forgivenesse be the effect of justifying faith, then they cannot be our righteousnesse, for that is the object of our justifying faith: Righteousnesse is before justifying faith as the object is before the act. Atonement is after it as the effect is after the cause; to say the cause and the effect is the same, is to say a thing is before and after it self.
Dialogu. This was the only true reason why God imputed Abraham's faith to him for righteousness, namely, because ⟨p. 228⟩he believed in Gods atonement, through the mediation of the seed promised.
Dialogu. This was the only true reason why God imputed Abrahams faith to him for righteousnesse, namely, because ⟨p. 228⟩he beleeved in Gods atonement, through the mediation of the seed promised.
Answ. We have seen before that Atonement was not, and also what was the true cause why Abraham's faith was imputed to him for righteousness. The Atonement of the Dialogue is not Gods Atonement, but a pestilent fiction, to believe in it is to believe in an abomination.