A89732:167
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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Dialogu. The death here threatened must be understood primarily of a spiritual death or death in sin.
Dialogu. The death here threatned must be understood primarily of a spirituall death or death in sin.
Answ. All that you say concerning spiritual death befalling Adam in the day that he sinned, and therefore primarily inflicted, is vain and impertinent; for that denieth not the inflicting of eternal death to be intended afterward, nay, it rather argueth eternal death to be primarily intended, because not executed; according to that Proposition, That which is first in intention is last in execution.
Answ. All that you say concerning spiritual death befalling Adam in the day that he sinned, and therefore primarily inflicted, is vain and impertinent; for that denyeth not the inflicting of eternall death to be intended afterward, nay, it rather argueth eternall death to be primarily intended, because not executed; according to that Proposition, That which is first in intention is last in execution.
That which is of the essence or substance of the punishment of sin, is primarily in the curse, and therefore primarily to be understood; but death for sin, not death in sin is of the essence of the punishment of sin, as we saw in the first Distinction, Chapter the first.