A89732:697
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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Though in many typical redemptions (for it was not so in all no price could exempt the Paschal Lamb, or the Lamb for the daily sacrifice, or the killed ⟨p. 147⟩goat) God accepted of a price, and spared life, yet not so in the Antitype. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. If this Argument be of force as it is here propounded without any limitation, then Christ need not have redeemed us by his death, but by money or money-worth, and so it holds against the Dialogue it self, and not only against us.
Though in many typicall redemptions (for it was not so in all no price could exempt the Paschall Lamb, or the Lamb for the daily sacrifice, or the killed ⟨p. 147⟩goat) God acepted of a price, and spared life, yet not so in the Antitype. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. If this Argument be of force as it is here propounded without any limitation, then Christ need not have redeemed us by his death, but by money or money-worth, and so it holds against the Dialogue it self, and not only against us.
Though all types of Christ put together hold forth all the essentials of Mediatorly obedience, yet such an universal significancy is not requisite to the nature of a single type: single types signify the truth or truths intended thereby concerning the Antitype, some one or more, some another, according to the intention of the Author.