A89732:1041
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. 1The Apostle in those words by the Law, Rom. 3.21. doth not intend the Law of works, nor the Ceremonial Law only, but the Law of Moses. Moses wrote of me, Joh. 5.46. The ceremonial Law did not typify our being made righteous by atonement, much less by the atonement of the Dialogue, as it is to be seen in the answer of the places you refer unto.
Answ. 1The Apostle in those words by the Law, Rom. 3.21. doth not intend the Law of works, nor the Ceremoniall Law only, but the Law of Moses. Moses wrote of me, Joh. 5.46. The ceremoniall Law did not typifie our being made righteous by atonement, much lesse by the atonement of the Dialogue, as it is to be seen in the answer of the places you referre unto.
- 1Willet. in loc. q. 27.
Dialogu Faith it self is not a sinners righteousness, and therefore it cannot be accounted as a sinners righteousness, in stead of the righteousness of the Law, as some would have it. For if faith were a sinners righteousness no otherwise but in the place or stead of the righteousness of the Law, then faith could not justify a sinner any further then the Law would do, if it could be supposed that a sinner could by any means attain to the righteousness of the Law, and then truly faith would be but a poor righteousness to cover a sinners nakedness. For if a sinner could keep the whole Law in every circumstance of it, from his birth unto his death, yet it would not be sufficient to justify him from his original sin.