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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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Dialogu God cannot in justice justify sinners by our Saviours Legal obedience imputed: because Legal obedience is altogether insufficient to justify a corrupt son of Adam from his original sin; for our corrupt and sinful nature did not fall upon us for the breach of any of Moses his Laws, but for the breach of another Law of works, which God gave to Adam in his innocency by way of prohibition, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death; so God cannot in justice impute our Saviours Legal obedience to any corrupt son of Adam for his full and perfect righteousness, because it is altogether insufficient to make a sinner righteous from his original sin.
Dialogu God cannot in iustice iustifie sinners by our Saviours Legal obedience imputed: because Legal obedience is altogether insufficient to iustifie a corrupt son of Adam from his original sin; for our corrupt and sinful nature did not fall upon us for the breach of any of Moses his Laws, but for the breach of another Law of works, which God gave to Adam in his innocency by way of prohibition, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death; so God cannot in iustice impute our Saviours Legal obedience to any corrupt son of Adam for his full and perfect righteousnesse, because it is altogether insufficient to make a sinner righteous from his original sin.
Answ. We are to distinguish of the Law, it's taken sometimes more largely either for all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, Luk. 16.17. Joh. 15.25. or for all the Books of Moses, Matt. 7.12. sometimes more strictly for the Moral Law, Rom. 7.7. So Paul opposeth the Law of works to the Law of faith; and Luke the Law of Moses unto Christ, Act. 13.39. because by him all that believe are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses.