A89732:162
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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Answ. Because God so pleased. Because elect sinners, not dying in their own persons must die in their surety, else the Text should not be a truth.1 He that compareth Rom. 5.14. with Gen. 2.17. hath an unspeakable ground of consolation, whilst he reads Gods purpose to redeem us in our first fathers sinning, and we in him. From hence Paul gathers an argument to conclude that all Adams posterity descended from him by way of ordinary generation to be guilty of Adams sin. Whilst you acknowledge that in Gen. 2.17. God laid down a rule of justice to Adam, you must needs imply the surety of the elect to have satisfied that rule of justice, and consequently to have suffered the wrath of God, and in conclusion you tacitly contradict your self, and act our cause.
Answ. Because God so pleased. Because elect sinners, not dying in their own persons must die in their surety, else the Text should not be a truth.1 He that compareth Rom. 5.14. with Gen. 2.17. hath an unspeakable ground of consolation, whilest he reades Gods purpose to redeem us in our first fathers sinning, and we in him. From hence Paul gathers an argument to conclude that all Adams posterity descended from him by way of ordinary generation to be guilty of Adams sin. Whilest you acknowledge that in Gen. 2.17. God laid down a rule of justice to Adam, you must needs imply the surety of the elect to have satisfied that rule of justice, and consequently to have suffered the wrath of God, and in conclusion you tacitely contradict your self, and act our cause.
- 1Unde admirabilis Dei [Greek or Hebrew] cognoscitur qui in morbo remedium, in morte vitam, in perditore ervatorem adumbratum voluit. Paraeus in locum.