A89732:900
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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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.
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.
That Law which faith in Christ a Saviour establisheth, that Law Christ as God-man Mediator establisheth; but the Law of works is that Law which faith in Christ a Saviour establisheth, Rom. 3.2. therefore the Law of works was established, and consequently obeyed by Christ as God-man Mediator: for the establishing of the Law includes Legal obedience.
That Law which faith in Christ a Saviour establisheth, that Law Christ as God-man Mediator establisheth; but the Law of works is that Law which faith in Christ a Saviour establisheth, Rom. 3.2. therefore the Law of works was established, and consequently obeyed by Christ as God-man Mediator: for the establishing of the Law includes Legall obedience.
He who as God-man Mediator is the perfecting end (i.e. is he, in whom the Law hath its perfecting end) of the Law, performed obedience to the Law: but Christ i.e. God-man Mediator, as such, is the perfecting end of the Law (so is the plain and acknowledged sense of the Greek word) Rom. 10.4. therefore Christ as God-man Mediator performed obedience to the Law.