A89732:950
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 strength then of this misinterpretation being built upon your distinction of the double death of Christ, namely, his dying as a Mediator, Answ. and as a Malefactor: that is to say a Malefactor in the Jews account, but not in Gods; The Reader again is desired to accept of the answer given to your distinction in the places mentioned, where if the distinction falls, all which is built thereupon will perish with it.
The strength then of this misinterpretation being built upon your distinction of the double death of Christ, namely, his dying as a Mediator, Answ. and as a Malefactor: that is to say a Malefactor in the Jews account, but not in Gods; The Reader again is desired to accept of the answer given to your distinction in the places mentioned, where if the distinction fals, all which is built thereupon will perish with it.
To be sinless is not enough to being Righteous: the unreasonable creature is sinless but not Righteous.
To be sinlesse is not enough to being Righteous: the unreasonable creature is sinlesse but not Righteous.
The Dialogue having taken away from us the righteousness or Justification of the Legal obedience of Christ imputed, now telleth us what is our Righteousness, namely, Gods Atonement or the Fathers Atonement, and pag. 120. we have the Dialogues meaning concerning Atonement explained by the several terms thereof: in pardoning and forgiving sin, blotting out and covering sin, bearing and taking away sin, purging and cleansing of sinners, passing over, and not imputing of sin; so that a sinners righteousness, justice, or justification, according to the Author, is nothing else but the Fathers Atonement, pardon, and forgiveness, pag. 118.