A89732:994
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. 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.
3. That 'tis such an Atonement as denieth it self both to be from, and also denieth any being of the Legall 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 perill 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 witnesse that fiction of the Authour to be a truth, which includes an impossibility in nature, a contradiction in reason, and an abomination in Divinity.
Dialogu. It is evident that our first Parents were well acquainted with the doctrine of a sinners justification by Gods Atonement: for as soon as ever God had told them, that the seed of the woman should break the devils head-plot, he explained unto them the manner how the seed of the woman should do it, namely, by his Mediatorial sacrifice of Atonement.