A89732:866
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 Christs Legal obedience was but the work of his flesh or of his humane nature; therefore it could not be the procuring cause of Gods atonement for justification; for no obedience is meritorious but that obedience which is mediatorial. I never heard that the Father required the Mediator to perform Legal obedience at a proper condition of his Mediators office, nay, our Saviour himself doth testify, that his flesh (alone considered) doth not profit us to life and salvation, Joh. 6.63. therefore not his Legal obedience: for that was but the work of his flesh or humane nature.
Dialogu Christs Legal obedience was but the work of his flesh or of his humane nature; therefore it could not be the procuring cause of Gods atonement for iustification; for no obedience is meritorious but that obedience which is mediatorial. I never heard that the Father required the Mediator to perform Legal obedience at a proper condition of his Mediators office, nay, our Saviour himself doth testifie, that his flesh (alone considered) doth not profit us to life and salvation, Joh. 6.63. therefore not his Legal obedience: for that was but the work of his flesh or humane nature.
Answ. To say Christs Legal obedience was the work of his humane nature only, besides the absonousnesse of it in Divinity, will hardly escape an implicat, I mean a contradiction in reason; as the humane nature of Christ did not subsist alone, so neither doth it perform any humane operations alone; dependence in respect ⟨p. 192⟩of subsistence, inferreth a dependence in respect of operations: action includes being, as essential to it: we may as well affirm nothing to be something, as to affirm that to act of it self, that doth not subsist of it self: From the personal union it comes to pass (saith Ames) that all the actions and passions of Christ are referred partly unto his person as unto the proper term of them,