A89732:286
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 6: The Vindication of Exod. 20.10. Lev. 1.4. & 4.29. Lev. 8.14. & 16.20, 21.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Dialogu Imposition of hands with confession of sins upon the head of the sin offering, signified the owners faith of dependence.
Dialogu Imposition of hands with confession of sins upon the head of the sin offering, signified the owners faith of dependance.
Then it signified the owners faith in Christ as the true sacrifice to be slain for our sin imputed to him; for besides that this notion of faith in particular is included in the faith of dependence as the part is in the whole; he that asserteth the faith of dependence, asserteth therewithal the object thereof: (for faith and its object are Relates) a part of which object, and that directly intended in these texts, is this truth, to wit, That Christ did bear and take away the guilt and punishment due to the elect for sin. In your reasoning against the doctrine of Imputation from the Text alleged, (omitting any other) you commit these two errors.
Then it signified the owners faith in Christ as the true sacrifice to be slain for our sin imputed to him; for besides that this notion of faith in particular is included in the faith of dependance as the part is in the whole; he that asserteth the faith of dependance, asserteth therewithall the object thereof: (for faith and its object are Relates) a part of which object, and that directly intended in these texts, is this truth, to wit, That Christ did bear and take away the guilt and punishment due to the elect for sin. In your reasoning against the doctrine of Imputation from the Text alledged, (omitting any other) you commit these two errours.
1. You put upon us an interpretation which is not ours, nor hath our doctrine need of it; our conclusion sufficiently proceeding from these Texts, ⟨p. 51⟩