A89732:1166
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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To suppose a sinner to have performed those acts of Mediatorly obedience, which Christ performed, is to suppose an impossibility: Christ was and is God-man, and without sin, neither of which can be found in him who is a sinner.
The voice of this whole clause (this supposition excepted, or somewhat qualified) is not unlike the voice of Jacob, but the sense is the sense of Esau; i. e. the mind of the Dialogue uttered by the tongue of the Orthodox;1 but it is with the mind of the Orthodox, as hath been said of old concerning the Scripture: it lieth not in the sound but in the sense.
The voice of this whole clause (this supposition excepted, or somewhat qualified) is not unlike the voice of Jacob, but the sense is the sense of Esau; i. e. the minde of the Dialogue uttered by the tongue of the Orthodox;1 but it is with the minde of the Orthodox, as hath been said of old concerning the Scripture: it lieth not in the sound but in the sense.
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1If most pestilent doctrines have oftentimes been communicated in the language of the Scripture, marvel not then that they are communicated in a language which doth not unbecome the Orthodox: Neither let us (saith Hierome) speaking against the heresies of Ebion, Photinus, Marcion, and Bafilides, think the Gospel to be in the words of the Scripture, but in the sense. Who is ignorant that the Arians speak heresy by that Text, The Father is greater then I,