A89732:963
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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There is no such pardon of sin as the Dialogue affirms, namely, such a pardon of sin as doth not only disown the Legal obedience of Christ imputed as its cause, but also disclaims the very being of it. The being of the Dialogues pardon is the not being of Christs active and passive mediatorly obedience to the Law. It is such a fiction as the Author of it, and that at his conclusion undertaking to show its being from the causes thereof, Dial. p. 133. telleth us the formal cause is the fathers atonement, pardon, and forgiveness, but the subject matter is believing sinners of all sorts [the subject matter are the persons receiving justification, which some Divines call the matter of justification taken passively, yet adding therewith the Legal obedience of Christ, which they call the matter of justification taken actively, namely, that which is the matter, whereby a person elect and called is justified] but if you enquire after the essential matter of justification amongst the causes enumerated by the Author, behold the Dialogue is speechless, and presents you with a form without a matter, such a being as is neither created nor increated.
There is no such pardon of sin as the Dialogue affirms, namely, such a pardon of sin as doth not only disown the Legal obedience of Christ imputed as its cause, but also disclaims the very being of it. The being of the Dialogues pardon is the not being of Christs active and passive mediatorly obedience to the Law. It is such a fiction as the Authour of it, and that at his conclusion undertaking to shew its being from the causes thereof, Dial. p. 133. telleth us the formal cause is the fathers atonement, pardon, and forgivenesse, but the subject matter is beleeving sinners of all sorts [the subject matter are the persons receiving justification, which some Divines call the matter of justification taken passively, yet adding therewith the Legall obedience of Christ, which they call the matter of justification taken actively, namely, that which is the matter, whereby a person elect and called is justified] but if you enquire after the essential matter of justification amongst the causes enumerated by the Authour, behold the Dialogue is speechlesse, and presents you with a form without a matter, such a being as is neither created nor increated.