A89732:951
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.
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.
The Dialogue having taken away from us the righteousnesse or Justification of the Legal obedience of Christ imputed, now telleth us what is our Righteousnesse, 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 sinne, purging and cleansing of sinners, passing over, and not imputing of sin; so that a sinners righteousnesse, justice, or justification, according to the Authour, is nothing else but the Fathers Atonement, pardon, and forgivenesse, pag. 118.
The Hebrew translated Atonement properly signifieth to cover something,1 yet not with a garment or the like, which may be taken off again, but with some cleaving and tenacious matter, as pitch, lime,