A89732:1183
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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Part 2 › Section 2 › Chapter 9: Of Atonement or Reconciliation.
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Reconciliation notes a change of the parties reconciled,1 and consequently a change both in respect of God and man; on Gods part it infers no change in respect of affection, but in respect of the manifestation ⟨p. 262⟩of his love and dispensation; God always loveth the persons of the elect,2 the love of God is an immanent act, and is nothing else but God himself loving. To affirm any change in God in respect of his affection, were to affirm, that God is unconstant and mutable, to deny his immutability, and by consequence to deny him to be God. By reconciliation Gods affection is not changed, but Gods dispensation and our condition and disposition. That is taken away by the Mediatorly obedience of Christ, in respect of which God might justly have been angry with us for ever, and proceeded against us unto just condemnation.
Reconciliation notes a change of the parties reconciled,1 and consequently a change both in respect of God and man; on Gods part it infers no change in respect of affection, but in respect of the manifestation ⟨p. 262⟩of his love and dispensation; God alwaies loveth the persons of the elect,2 the love of God is an immanent act, and is nothing else but God himself loving. To affirm any change in God in respect of his affection, were to affirm, that God is unconstant and mutable, to deny his immutability, and by consequence to deny him to be God. By reconciliation Gods affection is not changed, but Gods dispensation and our condition and disposition. That is taken away by the Mediatorly obedience of Christ, in respect of which God might justly have been angry with us for ever, and proceeded against us unto just condemnation.
- 1August. in Joan. tract. 110.