A89732:1203
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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To make the first person an efficient, and the third person an instrumental cause in the working of reconciliation or faith, were by consequence to affirm some inferiority of the third person in respect of the fi•st, consequently an inequality between the persons, which were to infer an inequality in God, because every person is God, which (leaving the consideration of more dangerous inferences to the intelligent Reader) is inconsisting with the perfection of God, so unsafe is it to speak unadvisedly in these mysteries.
To make the first person an efficient, and the third person an instrumentall cause in the working of reconciliation or faith, were by consequence to affirm some inferiority of the third person in respect of the fi•st, consequently an inequality between the persons, which were to inferre an inequality in God, because every person is God, which (leaving the consideration of more dangerous inferences to the intelligent Reader) is inconsisting with the perfection of God, so unsafe is it to speak unadvisedly in these mysteries.
The second person in the Trinity is to be considered ⟨p. 267⟩as in himself, so he is only God and not man; or as subsisting in personal Union with the manhood, so he is God-man.
The second person in the Trinity is to be considered ⟨p. 267⟩as in himself, so he is only God and not man; or as subsisting in personall Union with the manhood, so he is God-man.