A89732:1113
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. Nothing (saith M. Forbes) is made of God to be a sinners righteousness but Jesus Christ alone and his righteousness, and this he proves by 1 Cor. 1.30. Jer. 23.26. with other places. The Apostle saith that Christ was made of God unto us righteousness, but how? not as the doctrine of imputation speaketh, but thus, God made him to be our righteousness in a Mediatorial way, by ordaining him to be the only meritorious procuring ⟨p. 248⟩cause of his atonement, which is a sinners only righteousness. Christ is not a sinners righteousness any otherwise but in a Mediatorial way only, as I have oft warned. Christ is called Jehovah our righteousness, but still it must be understood in a Mediatorial way, and no otherwise.
Dialogu. Nothing (saith M. Forbes) is made of God to be a sinners righteousnesse but Jesus Christ alone and his righteousnesse, and this he proves by 1 Cor. 1.30. Jer. 23.26. with other places. The Apostle saith that Christ was made of God unto us righteousnesse, but how? not as the doctrine of imputation speaketh, but thus, God made him to be our righteousnesse in a Mediatoriall way, by ordaining him to be the only meritorious procuring ⟨p. 248⟩cause of his atonement, which is a sinners onely righteousnesse. Christ is not a sinners righteousnesse any otherwise but in a Mediatoriall way only, as I have oft warned. Christ is called Jehovah our righteousnesse, but still it must be understood in a Mediatoriall way, and no otherwise.
We have seen already that Atonement is not righteousness, it cannot then be a sinners only righteousness.