A89732:255
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. If he laid them no otherwise on the Antitype then upon the type, then sin was laid typically only; and not in truth upon Christ, consequently the type and the antitype are confounded; and those types are so many untruths, yea, we are yet in our sins. But whatsoever your words are, we presume your meaning is: The types instanced in, did not typically hold forth any imputation of sin unto Christ the antitype.
How then did the Lord lay the sins of Israel upon the Priest, and upon the sacrifice?
Dialogu. The Priest bare the iniquity of the holy things by his Priestly appearing before Jehovah with his priestly apparel, especially with the golden plate, Exo. 28.38. he bare the iniquity of the Congregation by eating the peoples sin-offering in the holy place to make atonement, Lev. 10.17. The Lord laid all our sins upon Christ as upon our sacrifice, Isa. 53.12. where dying, bearing sin, intercession, are Synonima's. He bare the sins of men, namely, by his Mediatorial sacrifice. God laid all our sins upon Christ as our sacrifice of atonement; In this sense Paul explaineth the Levitical bearing of sin, Heb. 9.26, 28.
Dialogu. The Priest bare the iniquity of the holy things by his Priestly appearing before Iehovah with his priestly apparrell, especially with the golden plate, Exo. 28.38. he bare the iniquity of the Congregatton by eating the peoples sin-offering in the holy place to make atonement,