A89732:896
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The agent, i.e. the person.
2. The principle according to which the action proceeds, viz. either or both of the two natures.
3. The action.
4. The work it self, that operation which proceeds from both natures, and so it is twofold, in respect of its next principle is yet but one action; because the person or agent is but one: actions in respect of their next principle proper to either nature, are common to the person consisting of both natures.
The humane nature having no subsistence of its self, it is impossible it should have any efficiency of it self: Non-subsistence saith nothing: nothing cannot act of it self, but of this I spake before.