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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The formal cause of Justification is by imputation;1 Imputation is the actual and effectual application of the righteousness of Christ unto the Believer. To impute reckon, or account, in this place intend the same thing, the same word in Greek being translated indifferently by any of these three.
The formal cause of Justification is by imputation;1 Imputation is the actual and effectual application of the righteousnesse of Christ unto the Beleever. To impute reckon, or account, in this place intend the same thing, the same word in Greek being translated indifferently by any of these three.
- 1The formal Cause.
To impute,1 is to reckon that unto another, which in way of righteousness (whether of Justice, or Grace, or both,) belongs unto him. Imputation is either Legal, imputing unto us that which we have done, so the word is used Rom. 4.4. or Evangelical, imputing unto us that which another hath done; thus to impute, is for God in his act of justifying a sinner, to account the righteousness of Christ (which is not ours formally, not by debt) to be ours by Grace, as verily and really as if it were wrought by us; and in this sense the word is used ten times, Rom. 4. v. 3.5, 6.8, 9, 10, 11.22, 23, 24.
To impute,1 is to reckon that unto another, which in way of righteousnesse (whether of Justice, or Grace, or both,) belongs unto him. Imputation is either Legal, imputing unto us that which we have done, so the word is used