A89732:690
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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The Apostle comparing of Christs obedience to a price, which is the just value of a thing that is bought, pointeth us unto the preciousness of the blood, that is, of the obedience of Christ (a principal part thereof synecdochically put for the whole) which proceeds from the dignity of the person obeying, the kind of obedience, and the acceptation thereof jointly, not from any of them alone.
The Apostle comparing of Christs obedience to a price, which is the just value of a thing that is bought, pointeth us unto the preciousnesse of the bloud, that is, of the obedience of Christ (a principall part thereof synechdochically put for the whole) which proceeds from the dignity of the person obeying, the kinde of obedience, and the acceptation thereof jointly, not from any of them alone.
The blood of Christ of which Rom. 5.11. 1 John 1.17. was shed in a way of divine justice, Rom. 3.24, 25. the Greek words used Eph. 1.7. and Mat. 20.28. and Tit. 2.14. signify not only a price but a satisfactory price, such as was necessarily given for sin, that remission might proceed without any violation of justice. The person who suffered, being God, is so far from opposing his sufferings to have been in a way of satisfaction unto justice, as that it was absolutely requisite thereunto.
The bloud of Christ of which Rom. 5.11. 1 John 1.17. was shed in a way of divine justice, Rom. 3.24, 25. the Greek words used