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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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As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous, Rom. 5.19. It were too strait an interpretation to restrain the words to his passive obedience only; And for their sake, I will sanctify my self, Joh. 17.19.
As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous, Rom. 5.19. It were too strait an interpretation to restraine the words to his passive obedience only; And for their sake, I will sanctifie my selfe, Joh. 17.19.
Obj. Justification is often in the Scripture ascribed unto the death of Christ, Mat. 20.28. and 26.28. Act. 20.28. Rom. 3.24, 25. and elsewhere; therefore not the active and passive, but the passive obedience of Christ only, seems to be the matter of our Justification.
Ans. 'Tis true, that Justification is often ascribed in the Scripture unto the death of Christ, but to his death as the Meritorious cause, not as the material cause of our Justification; neither yet is it ascribed to his death as the Meritorious cause wholly, but partly, a part being put for the whole, viz. the passive, for both active and passive obedience; a trope often used in the Scripture; and as in the places alleged, the part. (or at least that which is as a part) is put for the whole, in respect of the cause; so also is there a part put for the whole, in