A89732:1103
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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In the meritorious cause it is both a Legal and an Evangelical act. Christs obeying the Law is Legal, but his obeying for us is Evangelical; in the material cause it is only an Evangelical act, it is given to us freely. There it is considered as wrought by him for us, here as applied to us. There is as a garment made, here as a garment put on. There it may be compared to the payment of the money by the Surety, here to the money as paid and accounted unto the use of the debtor.
In the meritorious cause it is both a Legall and an Evangelicall act. Christs obeying the Law is Legall, but his obeying for us is Evangelicall; in the materiall cause it is only an Evangelicall act, it is given to us freely. There it is considered as wrought by him for us, here as applied to us. There is as a garment made, here as a garment put on. There it may be compared to the payment of the money by the Surety, here to the money as paid and accounted unto the use of the debtor.
As it is not the commission of our disobedience, but the guilt and punishment that is imputed to Christ; so it is not the formal working of obedience or doing of the command, but the good, virtue, and efficacy thereof, that is imputed unto the Believer: Obedience, righteousness and life, disobedience, guilt (which is a right unto punishment) and punishment, that is, death, answer one the other.
As it is not the commission of our disobedience, but the guilt and punishment that is imputed to Christ; so it is not the formall working of obedience or doing of the command, but the good, vertue, and efficacy thereof, that is imputed unto the Beleever: Obedience, righteousnesse and life, disobedience, guilt (which is a right unto punishment) and punishment, that is, death, answer one the other.