A89732:1038
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 But yet the Apostle doth further describe this righteousness of God, ver. 21. by two other circumstances, 1. Negatively. 2. Affirmatively. 1. Negatively he saith, that this righteousness is without the works of the Law. He doth plainly affirm that the works of the Law have no influence at all in the point of a sinners justice or justification.
Dialogu But yet the Apostle doth further describe this righteousnesse of God, ver. 21. by two other circumstances, 1. Negatively. 2. Affirmatively. 1. Negatively he saith, that this righteousnesse is without the works of the Law. He doth plainly affirm that the works of the Law have no influence at all in the point of a sinners justice or justification.
Answ. We are justified without the works of the Law, that is, without the works of the Law done by us, but not without the works of the Law done by Christ: We are justified freely, it costeth us nothing,1 yet we are justified justly, it cost Christ the laying down of a full price.
- 1Buchan: loc 31. q. 16.
Dialogu. He doth affirm that this righteousness of God whereby sinners are made righteous, is such a righteousness as is witnessed by the Law and by the Prophet. It is witnessed by the Law, namely, by that part of the Law which did teach and typify unto sinners how they might ⟨p. 232⟩be sinless by Gods atonement through their sacrifice of atonement, as the procuring cause thereof, as I have opened the matter more at large already.