A89732:992
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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1. That Atonement or pardon of sin and righteousness differ in their natures, to take away unrighteousness from a sinner, is not to give righteousness to a sinner, 'tis an impossibility for that which is not justice to be justice.
1. That Atonement or pardon of sin and righteousnesse differ in their natures, to take away unrighteousnesse from a sinner, is not to give righteousnesse to a sinner, 'tis an impossibility for that which is not justice to be justice.
2. That the righteousness of the Dialogue is such a thing as consists of a form without any essential matter, and is indeed a Non-ens, such a thing as is a nothing.
2. That the righteousnesse of the Dialogue is such a thing as consists of a form without any essentiall matter, and is indeed a Non-ens, such a thing as is a nothing.
3. That 'tis such an Atonement as denieth it self both to be from, and also denieth any being of the Legal meritorious Obedience of Christ. Behold then the presumption of the Dialogue, that forgetting just conscience unto God, the reverence of the ⟨p. 218⟩truth, dread of so pestilent an untruth, to the peril of the Reader, that distinguisheth not between ostentation and reason, and to the vexing and just indignation of him that doth; engageth the godly in all ages from the beginning of the world, the practice of all sacrifices before the Law, and under the Law, the doctrine of the Prophets, and of the New Testament, to witness that fiction of the Author to be a truth, which includes an impossibility in nature, a contradiction in reason, and an abomination in Divinity.