A89732:56
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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CHAP. I. The Introduction.
THE Mediatorly obedience of Christ in the full extent thereof comprehendeth the universal execution of the whole Office of the Mediator, which he as King, Priest and Prophet, throughly performed, and still performeth to the glory of the Father, and salvation of ⟨p. 2⟩the Elect. This Dialogue singleth out a principal part of his Priest-hood, against which it contends primarily, and against the received doctrine of Justification secondarily; the later necessarily following upon the former. Omitting therefore the Kingly and Prophetical parts of the Mediatorship altogether, and so much of the Priestly part thereof as is herein untouched, for the better confining and guiding the apprehension of the Reader in the ensuing Dispute, before we close with the Discourse it self, give me leave (together with the foregoing intimation) to premise briefly certain Propositions, four Questions, five Distinctions, with some few Arguments. The Distinctions serving to Answer some chief Objections. The Propositions, Questions and Arguments, tending to clear and confirm the Truth.
Prop. I The Lord Jesus Christ as God-man, Mediator according to the will of the Father, and his own voluntary consent fully obeyed the Law, doing the command in a way of works, and suffering the essential punishment of the curse, in a way of obedient satisfaction unto Divine justice, thereby exactly fulfilling the first Covenant; which active and passive obedience of his, together with his original righteousness as a Surety, God of his rich grace actually imputeth unto Believers, whom upon the receipt thereof, by the grace of Faith, he declareth and accepteth as perfectly righteous, and acknowledgeth them to have right unto eternal Life. More fully and particularly