A89732:827
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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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.
Adams knowing nothing concerning faith in Christ until after the fall, doth not disprove a principle in him whereby he was able to believe in Christ. The Angels knew no more of Christs being propounded to them to be believed in as their head and confirmer, then Adam did of Christs being propounded to him to be believed in as his head and Redeemer: Yet the Angels in their Creation received a principle whereby they were able to believe in Christ as their head and confirmer (being commanded so to do) without the inspiring of any new principle. Had Christ in like manner been propounded unto Adam, yet in his innocency to have been believed in as his Head and Confirmer, which was no more repugnant to that estate then to the state of the Angels, he had been also (through proportionable concourse of the first cause) able to have yielded like obedience thereunto; the concreated image of God in Adam and in the Angels being the same in kind. Why then was not that principle in Adam able to have carried him out to have believed in Christ as a Head and Redeemer? ⟨p. 180⟩