A89732:28
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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How formidable then is that worse then Ammonitish Lust (too much adhered unto by many not only in but of Israel, in this hour of the Gospels Passion) which endeavoureth together with the putting out of the right eye of Magistracy, that neither the name of Councils in Jerusalem, nor of Office-rule in Churches may be had any more in remembrance. Luther sometimes wrote to ⟨image 5⟩the Senate of Mulhaysen to beware of the wolf Muncer.
How formidable then is that worse then Ammonitish Lust (too much adhered unto by many not only in but of Israel, in this hour of the Gospels Passion) which endeavoureth together with the putting out of the right eye of Magistracy, that neither the name of Councels in Jerusalem, nor of Office-rule in Churches may be had any more in remembrance. Luther sometimes wrote to ⟨image 5⟩the Senate of Mulhaysen to beware of the wolf Muncer.
I appeal to any competently judicious and sober-minded man, if the denial of rule in the Presbytery, of a decisive voice in the Synod, and of the power of the Magistrate in matters of Religion, doth not in this point translate the Papal power unto the Brotherhood of every Congregation. Thou that abhorrest Episcopacy dost thou commit Popery? Alas, alas! Is there no medium between Boniface and Morellius, between Papacy and Anarchy, Babylon and Babel? If there be a mystery of iniquity in the one, is there not a University of iniquity in the other? Confusion is not far from every evil work, and though not mystical in it self, yet mystical in this that the way to so manifest confusion and ruin should not be manifest. The Historians indignation that the East was overcome by a drunken Commander with a drunken Army,1 is now become (I speak the words of truth and soberness) a matter of astonishment, when so drunken a Tenet in an Age of such learning, piety, action, suffering, and success, should threaten the hopes of so glorious a Reformation come unto the very birth.