A89732:826
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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Answ. If the ten Commandments do require faith in ⟨p. 179⟩Christ as well as moral duties, then the ten Commandments require moral duties as well as faith in Christ; if so, then they may aptly in that respect be called the moral Law.
Answ. If the ten Commandments doe require faith in ⟨p. 179⟩Christ as well as morall duties, then the ten Commandments require moral duties as well as faith in Christ; if so, then they may aptly in that respect be called the morall Law.
Moral duties so called from the Law, that universal and perpetual rule of manners teaching how man should be ordered, disposed, qualified, conformed, and (if we may so speak) mannered towards God and man: are co-extended with the Law it self; Law and Duty are Relates: as therefore faith in Christ becometh a part of mans duty and orderly or regular disposition and conformity towards God; what hinders but in this larger acception thereof it may be said to be a moral duty? though strictly (and according to the sense of that usual distinction of faith and manners) it is not so taken.
Morall duties so called from the Law, that universall and perpetual rule of manners teaching how man should be ordered, disposed, qualified, conformed, and (if we may so speak) mannered towards God and man: are co-extended with the Law it self; Law and Duty are Relates: as therefore faith in Christ becometh a part of mans duty and orderly or regular disposition and conformity towards God; what hinders but in this larger acception thereof it may be said to be a morall duty? though strictly (and according to the sense of that usuall distinction of faith and manners) it is not so taken.