A89732:891
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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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, Mat. 5.17. compared with Heb. 10 7. he that had a body prepared came to do the will of God, by which, i.e. by the doing of which (the relate taken together with the correlate of obedience) we are sanctified: Christ came to fulfil the Law as he was sent, but God set him as God-man Mediator, Gal. 4.4. those words are spoken by Christ after Johns Baptism in the time of his Mediatorly obedience, according to the Dialogue.
Christ fullfilled the Law not as man onely, but as God-man Mediatour. Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets, I came not to destroy it but to fullfil it, Mat. 5.17. compared with Heb. 10 7. he that had a body prepared came to do the will of God, by which, i.e. by the doing of which (the relate taken together with the correlate of obedience) we are sanctified: Christ came to fullfil the Law as he was sent, but God set him as God-man Mediator, Gal. 4.4. those words are spoken by Christ after Johns Baptism in the time of his Mediatorly obedience, according to the Dialogue.
If Christ then according to the Scripture had the Law of works or the Law of Moses written in his heart, was made subject thereunto, and fulfilled it not as man only but as God-man Mediator, then Christs Legal obedience was not the obedience of a man only.
If Christ then according to the Scripture had the Law of works or the Law of Moses written in his heart, was made subject thereunto, and fullfilled it not as man only but as God-man Mediatour, then Christs Legal obedience was not the obedience of a man only.