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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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It is necessary (saith the Dialogue) to distinguish ⟨p. 139⟩between Legal and Mediatorial obedience; Legal or natural obedience is no more, but humane obedience performed by Christ as a godly Jew unto the Law of works, all the actions of Christ from his birth until he was thirty years of age, must be considered but as natural or but as legal acts of obedience: I cannot see (saith the Dialogue) how any of these actions (which yet it somewhat corrects, as we shall find in due place) can properly be called Mediatorial obedience. Pag. 111. 112.
It is necessary (saith the Dialogue) to distinguish ⟨p. 139⟩between Legall and Mediatoriall obedience; Legall or naturall obedience is no more, but humane obedience performed by Christ as a godly Jew unto the Law of works, all the actions of Christ from his birth until he was thirty years of age, must be considered but as natural or but as legall acts of obedience: I cannot see (saith the Dialogue) how any of these actions (which yet it somewhat corrects, as we shall finde in due place) can properly be called Mediatoriall obedience. Pag. 111. 112.
The Mediatorial obedience of Christ,1 according to the Dialogue, consists of those acts of his obedience which he did actuate by the joint concurrence of both his natures, some whereof, viz. many mediatorial prayers of his intercession, though they were acted by him before 30 years of age, yet the far greater part of the acts thereof, and all the public actions were performed after he was thirty years of age, viz. after his public installing into the office of Mediatorship, Mat. 3. See pag. 112. 113. amongst the which mediatorial acts of his obedience is his giving up his Manhood by the power of his Divine nature to suffer a natural death, such and no other as the sons of Zebedee suffered,