A89732:889
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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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. 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 Mediatour.
Christ fulfilled the Law not as man only, but as God-man Mediator. Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets, I came not to destroy it but to fulfil it,