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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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CHAP. III. Of that wherein the true meritorious efficacy of the blood of Christ lieth.
CHAP. III. Of that wherein the true meritorious efficacy of the bloud of Christ lieth.
Dialogu The true meritorious efficacy of the blood of Christ lies not in this, that it was a part of the corporeal ⟨p. 148⟩substance of the Lamb of God without spot; nor in this, that he suffered his blood to be shed by the Roman soldiers in a passive manner of obedience, but it lieth in this, that it was shed by his own active priestly power, by which means only it became a Mediatorial sacrifice of atonement.
Dialogu THe true meritorious efficacy of the bloud of Christ lies not in this, that it was a part of the corporeall ⟨p. 148⟩substance of the Lamb of God without spot; nor in this, that he suffered his bloud to be shed by the Roman souldiers in a passive manner of obedience, but it lieth in this, that it was shed by his own active priestly power, by which means only it became a Mediatorial sacrifice of atonement.
Answ. What the Dialogue in the beginning of the second part called Mediatorly obedience; annexing this note withal upon the Margin [the thing of price which Christ paid for our Redemption was his Mediatorly obedience] is here expressed by the meritorious efficacy of the blood of Christ, The Reader therefore is here to be desired to keep in mind that the matter intended by these terms is the obedience of the Mediator; that so the alteration of the words may not insensibly steal away his attention to the question, nor abuse him into a better opinion then there is cause of this part of the discourse which vilifieth the sufferings of Christ under a specious pretence to magnify the blood of Christ: nor occasion him to drink in the mind of the Dialogue concerning our Redemption by the death of Christ only, according to its interpretation, it being more aptly if not subtly insinuated under these words [the meritorious efficacy of the blood of Christ] then under the phrase of [Mediatorly obedience] whereof the shedding of his blood only was a small part.