A89732:692
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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Let not the Reader be moved with the multitude of Scriptures misalleged, but know the private and erring interpretation of them all to be but a very fallacy, of putting that which is not a Cause for a Cause, namely, that which is not a Divine Testimony for a Divine Testimony: the letter of the Scripture alleged not according to its sense, is not the Scripture: That saying of Christ, The Father is greater then I, 1in Joh. 14.28. cited according to the sense of an Arian is not Scripture. These words This is my body, Mat. 26. cited according to the sense of the Papist, is not the word of God; neither is that Text 1 Cor. 6.20. nor any of the rest cited for the confirmation of Mediatorly obedience in the sense of the Dialogue, the word of God. So true is that Proposition, No heretics or ⟨p. 146⟩heterodox as such, ever cited the Word of God.
Let not the Reader be moved with the multitude of Scriptures misalledged, but know the private and erring interpretation of them all to be but a very fallacy, of putting that which is not a Cause for a Cause, namely, that which is not a Divine Testimony for a Divine Testimony: the letter of the Scripture alledged not according to its sense, is not the Scripture: That saying of Christ, The Father is greater then I, 1in Joh. 14.28. cited according to the sense of an Arian is not Scripture. These words This is my body, Mat. 26. cited according to the sense of the Papist, is not the word of God; neither is that Text 1 Cor. 6.20. nor any of the rest cited for the confirmation of Mediatorly obedience in the sense of the Dialogue, the word of God. So true is that Proposition, No hereticks or