A89732:111
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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It is very true that the Mediatorly obedience of Christ is the meritorious and full price of redemption, but most untrue in the sense of your Mediatorial obedience for you leave out and reject from thence Christs obedience to the Law of works as God-man, his judicial bearing of sin, his suffering the punishment due for sin, in way of satisfaction to divine justice,1 and all this as the Surety of the elect, without which the Mediatorly obedience of Christ is insufficient and uneffectuall, for we cannot bear sin nor endure the punishment of sin so as to satisfy the justice of God, nor can we perform legal obedience, yet all these must be suffered, Gen. 2.17. overcome, 1 Cor. 15.17. and done Lev. 18.5. otherwise no salvation, Gal. 3.10. otherwise sin still reigns, the curse hath dominion, and justice remaineth in its full force to the execution of eternal death.
It is very true that the Mediatorly obedience of Christ is the meritorious and full price of redemption, but most untrue in the sense of your Mediatorial obedience for you leave out and reject from thence Christs obedience to the Law of works as God-man, his judiciall bearing of sin, his suffering the punishment due for sin, in way of satisfaction to divine justice,1 and all this as the Surety of the elect, without which the Mediatorly obedience of Christ is insufficient and uneffectuall, for we cannot bear sin nor endure the punishment of sin so as to satisfie the justice of God, nor can we perform legall obedience, yet all these must be suffered, Gen. 2.17. overcome, 1 Cor. 15.17. and done Lev. 18.5. otherwise no salvation,