A89732:822
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 Law in Scripture is called the image of God, because by it written in the heart man resembled God, Gen. 1.27. The ten words or ten Commandments from the number of the precepts therein contained, Deut. 4.13. The two great Commandments, Mat. 22.40. The Law of Moses, Act. 28.23. because given by Moses, Joh. 1.17. The Law of works, Rom. 3.27. because it required personal and perfect obedience thereunto, as the condition of our Justification. By Divines it is called the Decalogue because it consisteth of ten Commandments. The second edition ⟨p. 178⟩of the Law of nature being first concreated with our nature, Gen. 1.27. and afterwards written upon two Tables of stones, Exod. 31.18. The moral Law because it is the perpetual rule of manners teaching how we should be ordered towards God and Man, and also to distinguish it from the Ceremonial and judicial Law: But not because every one of the ten Commandments were engraven in our nature in the time of Adams innocency, as the Dialogue puts upon us to make way for its burdening of us with its vain and impertinent objection against calling the Decalogue the moral Law.
The Law in Scripture is called the image of God, because by it written in the heart man resembled God, Gen. 1.27. The ten words or ten Commandements from the number of the precepts therein contained, Deut. 4.13. The two great Commandments,