A89732:143
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
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.
Answ. For the better understanding this Text, the misunderstanding whereof seemeth not a little to have misled the Author, and the true understanding whereof may be of good use to preserve the Reader; Consider these three things.
Answ. For the better understanding this Text, the misunderstanding whereof seemeth not a little to have misl•d the Authour, and the true understanding whereof may be of good use to preserve the Reader; Consider these three things.
1. What is here intended by death. 2. The distribution of death. 3. The application of that distribution.
The Death here spoken of is the wages of sin, Rom. 5.21. and 6.23. That is, all evil (the evil of Adams sin excepted) in one word. As all lines unite in the centre, so all sorrows meet in that one term Death. The commination Thou shalt surely die, is not particular concerning some kind of Death, but indefinite, therefore equivalent to a universal comprehending all kinds of death; God inflicts no evil upon man but for sin, and all evil not only of affliction, but also of sin followeth upon Adams sin; Original sin proceeding thence as an effect from the cause, and actual sin as an act from the habit: As all evil is inflicted for sin, so all evil in Scripture-language is called Death. The evil of affliction Exo. 10.17. Of bodily Death, Gen. 3.15.