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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. After his resurrection he said to the two Disciples, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory? Luk. 24.25, 26. and in ver. 44.46. he said thus to all his Disciples; These are the words which I speak unto you, that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me, thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead on the third day.
3. After his resurrection he said to the two Disciples, O fools, and slow of heart to beleeve all that the Prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory? Luk. 24.25, 26. and in ver. 44.46. he said thus to all his Disciples; These are the words which I speak unto you, that all things must be fullfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me, thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead on the third day.
4. Paul told the men of Antioch, that the Rulers of the Jews condemned him because they knew not the voices of the Prophets concerning him, and therefore though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be slain, and when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre, Act. 13.27, 28, 29. mark this phrase, They fulfilled all things that were written of him; if they fulfilled all his sufferings, then it was not Gods wrath but mans wrath that he suffered.
4. Paul told the men of Antioch, that the Rulers of the Iews condemned him because they knew not the voices of the Prophets concerning him, and therefore though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be slain, and when they had fullfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre,