A89732:953
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.
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, ⟨p. 210⟩mortar, &c, wherewith the thing covered is wholly hidden: hence referred unto wrath it signifieth to pacify or appease, and that either with a gift prepared, Gen. 32.20. or compensation made for an injury done,2 2 Sam. 21.3. referred to sin, it signifieth to expiate, whence the day of Atonement Lev. 16. is called a day of expiation. An expiation is a sacrifice given for the purging and satisfaction of some great offence. To purge Psal. 65.3. & Psal. 79.9. To be propitious or merciful, Deut. 21.8. And lastly to pardon Psa. 78.38. in which last sense the Dialogue takes it for our righteousness and justification. This the Reader is desired to take full notice of, it in the Dialogues corrupt sense being that Helena, in defence whereof a good part of the ensuing discourse spends it self, and the just confutation whereof here given, and kept in mind, may serve as an answer to the after frequent repetitions of the same thing.
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, ⟨p. 210⟩