A89732:307
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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For Christ to be made sin is not to have sin imputed to him,1 is a meer non sequitur. If Christ be made sin for us in the same sense that the water of purification and trespass-money are called sin: then Christ is made sin only figuratively; consequently suffered for sin figuratively not properly, the elect also are saved figuratively and not properly.
For Christ to be made sin is not to have sinne imputed to him,1 is a meer non sequitur. If Christ be made sin for us in the same sense that the water of purification and trespasse-money are called sinne: then Christ is made sinne only figuratively; consequently suffered for sin figuratively not properly, the elect also are saved figuratively and not properly.
- 1Vide Bezam in Gal. 3.13.
To say God made Christ to be sin not by imputing ⟨p. 55⟩their sin to him, but by ordaining him to be a sin-offering, is, as if you should say, God made Christ sin, not by imputing sin to him, but by ordaining him to have sin imputed to him. If sin was imputed to him, consequently the guilt of sin was imputed, which we here affirm, and you deny.