A89732:888
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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Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, Mine ears hast thou opened, a body hast thou prepared, Heb. 10.5. burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required, then said I, Lo I come, In the Volume of thy Book it is written of me, to do thy will O my God, yea, thy Law is in my heart; the boring of the ear, and preparing of a body note his incarnation, i e. Christ as God man.
The Law or will of God which he was to do, is that will whereby we are sanctified, the word taken largely for our being consecrated unto God, and therefore notes Christs redeeming of us.
Christ was made subject to the Law, not as man only but as God-man Mediator: But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that they might receive the Adoption of Sons, Gal. 4 4.5. His Son made of a woman, signifieth God-man: the Law whereunto he was subject, is the Law whereunto we are subject; he was made under the Law, from under which he redeemed us: his circumcision argued him a debtor to that Law, ⟨p. 197⟩chap. 5.3. the end was to redeem us, which evinceth his doing thereof as Mediator.
Christ was made subject to the Law, not as man only but as God-man Mediator: But when the fulnes of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that they might receive the Adoption of Sons, Gal. 4 4.5