A89732:1164
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. In like sort our blessed Mediator (as he is the mystical head of all believers in the Covenant of grace) did take care to do all and every act of Mediatorial obedience that might procure his Fathers Atonement for the good and benefit of every member of his mystical body, as fully and effectually as if every member could have performed those acts of Mediatorial obedience themselves. And in this sense God doth impute the efficacy of all Christs Mediatorial obedience to all believers as the only meritorious price of his Fathers atonement for them.
Dialogu. In like sort our blessed Mediatour (as he is the mysticall head of all beleevers in the Covenant of grace) did take care to do all and every act of Mediatoriall obedience that might procure his Fathers Atonement for the good and benefit of every member of his mysticall body, as fully and effectually as if every member could have performed those acts of Mediatoriall obedience themselves. And in this sense God doth imput• the efficacy of all Christs Mediatoriall obedience to all beleevers as the only meritorious price of his Fathers atonement for them.
Answ. The Reader may at the first sight hereof haply think, that as it was sometimes with Bellarmine, who having spent whole Books in a laborious disputation for mans merit against grace,1 at length saith, It is most safe to place our confidence in the alone mercy of God. So it is here fallen out with the Author, who after his labour hitherto against the doctrine of Imputation, now at length may seem to acknowledge it: But though his words be equivocal, yet his meaning is the same that it was before, and so much the more dangerous, because the same evil sense is insinuated in a better language.
Answ. The Reader may at the first sight hereof haply think, that as it was sometimes with Bellarmine, who having spent whole Books in a laborious disputation for mans merit against grace,1