A89732:1187
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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Answ. Here you do not obscurely (what before you did in effect expressly, viz.) make forgiveness and receiving into favour parts of Gods atonement: yet pag. 154. lin▪ 19. you make them effects of the Fathers atonement. If they be parts, they cannot be effects, if effects they cannot be parts, because the part is before the whole, i. e. its integrum, but the effect is after the cause; you may as well make the same thing before and after it self as make these stand together.
Answ. Here you do not obscurely (what before you did in effect expresly, viz.) make forgivenesse and receiving into favour parts of Gods atonement: yet pag. 154. lin▪ 19. you make them effects of the Fathers atonement. If they be parts, they cannot be effects, if effects they cannot be parts, because the part is before the whole, i. e. its integrum, but the effect is after the cause; you may as well make the same thing before and after it self as make these stand together.
Dialogu. This also must be remembered, that no other person in Trinity doth forgive sins formally but God the Father only; Mar. 2.7. Col. 2.13. he of his free grace did ordain the Mediator, as the meritorious procuring cause of his forgiveness, and therefore it is said that he doth forgive us all our sins for Christs sake, Ephes. 4.32. sometimes Christ is said to forgive sins, Col. 3.3. but still we must understand his forgiveness to be in a Mediatorial way, not formally.
Dialogu. This also must be remembred, that no other person in Trinity doth forgive sins formally but God the Father only;