A89732:1028
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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If then righteousness be the cause, and atonement or remission of sin the effect; To say again, Atonement is our righteousness, is to say the effect is the cause, that is to say, a thing is before and after it self, that is to say and say again an impossibility without any probability.
If then righteousnesse be the cause, and atonement or remission of sin the effect; To say again, Atonement is our righteousnesse, is to say the effect is the cause, that is to say, a thing is before and after it self, that is to say and say again an impossibility without any probability.
Dialogu. And to this tenor the Apostle Paul doth explain the use of faith in the point of a sinners justification, Phil. 3 9. and in Rom. 10.4, 6, 10. With the heart saith ⟨p. 229⟩he man believeth unto righteousness. He doth not say faith is a sinners righteousness, but that by it a sinner believeth unto righteousness.
Dialogu. And to this tenour the Apostle Paul doth explain the use of faith in the point of a sinners justification, Phil. 3 9. and in Rom. 10.4, 6, 10. With the heart saith ⟨p. 229⟩he man beleeveth unto righteousnesse. He doth not say faith is a sinners righteousnesse, but that by it a sinner beleeveth unto righteousnesse.