A89732:115
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. If you did not say so, your Reader might well dread hearkening to such a Mediatorial obedience which the Teacher thereof durst not profess to be saving.
Answ. If you did not say so, your Reader might well dread hearkening to such a Mediatoriall obedience which the Teacher thereof durst not professe to be saving.
Though you do say so, yet if you say not the truth, your so saying makes your doctrine never the more safe, but so much the more perilous as by such specious pretences it is rendered more apt to be received. Aaron's Calf was never the less an Idol notwithstanding those glorious words spoken of it, these are thy Gods that brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt, Exo. 32.8. the fictitious Mediatorial obedience of the Dialogue is no whit altered from it self, howsoever gilded over with the falsely arrogated attributes of the obedience of Christ.
Though you do say so, yet if you say not the truth, your so saying makes your doctrine never the more safe, but so much the more perilous as by such specious pretences it is rendred more apt to be received. Aarons Calf was never the lesse an Idol notwithstanding those glorious words spoken of it, these are thy Gods that brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt, Exo. 32.8. the fictitious Mediatorial obedience of the Dialogue is no whit altered from it self, howsoever guilded over with the falsly arrogated attributes of the obedience of Christ.
Dialogu. They place the price of our Redemption in his suffering Gods wrath for us in the full weight and measure, as it is due to our sins by the Curse of the Law: I place the price of our redemption in the merit of his Mediatorial obedience, whereof his Mediatorial sacrifice of Atonement was the Master-piece.