A89732:868
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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To be incarnate was an act of Legal obedience, God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. a body hast thou prepared me, In the Volume of thy Book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, and then said I, Lo I come, Heb. 10.5 But the Father required of the Mediator to be incarnate, as a proper condition of his Mediatorly office, Gal. 4.5. to redeem such as be under the Law; to fulfil the Law is Legal obedience, but the Father required of the Mediator to fulfil the Law, Mat. 5.17. I came to fulfil it, and that as a proper condition of his Mediators office; as he came so he was sent, but he was sent as Mediator: for the Mediator to suffer death as our surety in a way of justice, is an act of Legal obedience; but the Father required of the Mediator as a proper condition of the Mediators office to suffer death for us in a way of justice, if his soul shall set it self a sacrifice for sin, he shall see his seed, &c. Isa. 53. therefore the Father required of the Mediator Legal obedience as a condition of his Mediators office, to suffer death for us in a way of justice.
To be incarnate was an act of Legal obedience, God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. a body hast thou prepared me, In the Volume of thy Book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, and then said I, Lo I come, Heb. 10.5 But the Father required of the Mediatour to be incarnate, as a proper condition of his Mediatorly office, Gal. 4.5. to redeem such as be under the Law; to fullfill the Law is Legal obedience, but the Father required of the Mediatour to fulfil the Law, Mat. 5.17. I came to fulfil it, and that as a proper condition of his Mediators office; as he came so he was sent, but he was sent as Mediator: for the Mediator to suffer death as our surety in a way of justice, is an act of Legal obedience; but the Father required of the Mediator as a proper condition of the Mediators office to suffer death for us in a way of justice, if his soul shall set it self a sacrifice for sin, he shall see his seed, &c.