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The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few…
The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perilous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begetting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perillous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begeting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.
London: printed by John Macock for Henry Cripps, 1654
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That obedience which the Law requireth unto life, Christ fully performed; but the Law required active obedience unto life, Levit. 18.5. Gal. 3.10. which if a man do, he shall live in them, and in case of sin, hath required passive obedience; for in that day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye, Gen. 2.17. that is, either in thy self, or in thy surety; therefore Christ performed both active and passive obedience.
That obedience which the Law requireth unto life, Christ fully performed; but the Law required active obedience unto life, Levit. 18.5. Gal. 3.10. which if a man doe, he shal live in them, and in case of sinne, hath required passive obedience; for in that day that thou eatest therof thou shalt surely dye, Gen. 2.17. that is, either in thy selfe, or in thy surety; therefore Christ performed both active and passive obedience.
If the Law requireth not only passive but active obedience, and the Elect by believing fulfil the Law; then he in whom they believe (and that as the object of their faith) hath fulfilled both active and passive obedience; but the Law requireth active and passive obedience, as is evident in the foregoing Arguments, and the Elect by believing fulfil the righteousness of the Law, Rom. 8.4.10.4. therefore he in whom they believe (and that as he is the object of their faith) hath fulfilled both active and passive obedience. This further appeareth, in that Christ was to answer the Law instead of the Elect, and that the Law pronounceth every one accursed that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them,