A89732:960
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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3.1 The judicial pronouncing of the believer in the Court of conscience hereupon to be just, by the virtue of the promise of the Gospel, for the merit sake of Christ, this Divines call our justification, because we are now declared to be just, and are judicially just, that is, the Believer now made righteous by faith, is judicially discharged, and declared to be discharged from the condemning guilt and punishment of sin, and accepted as righteous unto eternal life. The first is our righteousness or justice it self. The second is our being justified. The third is the judicial pronunciation that we are justified, so that pardon of sin is not a part of righteousness it self, but a part of the judicial sentence concerning one that is righteous, and because he is righteous.
3.1 The judicial pronouncing of the beleever in the Court of conscience hereupon to be just, by the vertue of the promise of the Gospel, for the merit sake of Christ, this Divines call our justification, because we are now declared to be just, and are judicially just, that is, the Beleever now made righteous by faith, is judicially discharged, and declared to be discharged from the condemning guilt and punishment of sin, and accepted as righteous unto eternall life. The first is our righteousnesse or justice it self. The second is our being justified. The third is the judiciall pronunciation that we are justified, so that pardon of sin is not a part of righteousnesse it self, but a part of the judiciall sentence concerning one that is righteous, and because he is righteous.
- 1Vid. Buch. loc. 31 q. 6. Remissio peccatorum est pars nostrae justificationis, sed non est pars nostrae justitiae. Polan. syntag. p. 1493.
To say pardon of sin is righteousness is self, is to confound the effect with the cause.