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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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Answ. The sum is, Christ could not sin, Therefore he could not suffer the punishment due to the elect for sin as a surety; a most reason-less and sick consequence, and the contrary true; He could not as Mediator and Surety have suffered satisfactorily the punishment for sin, if he had not been without sin.
Answ. The sum is, Christ could not sinne, Therefore he could not suffer the punishment due to the elect for sin as a surety; a most reason-lesse and sick consequence, and the contrary true; He could not as Mediator and Surety have suffered satisfactorily the punishment for sinne, if he had not been without sinne.
Though Christ was not a sinner inherently, yet he was a sinner imputatively, whereupon the substantial curse of the Law was justly executed upon him.
Though Christ was not a sinner inherently, yet he was a sinner imputatively, whereupon the substantiall curse of the Law was justly executed upon him.
Dialogu. Examine the particulars of any other curse of the ⟨p. 29⟩Law, and they will be found to be such as Christ could not suffer. Diseases, natural death, putrefaction of body after death, eternal death, are curses of the Law; Christ did not bear diseases and bodily infirmities, yet by the common doctrine of imputation you must affirm it: nor suffer natural death in our stead, nor see corruption, nor suffer eternal death, therefore he did not suffer the cursed death meant Gen. 2.17.
Dialogu. Examine the particulars of any other curse of the