A89732:186
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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Sufferings for sin (as we have divers times said before) are such as are penal essentially, viz. in respect of the punishment considered in it self, namely, the privation of the present fruition of the good of the promise, and inflicting of the sinless misery of the curse: or consequentially, viz. not in respect of the punishment it self, but in respect of the condition of the Patient, such are called detestable consequents, namely sins, imperfections, &c. And evils that are proper to the reprobate. 3. Innumerable common sorrows of this life. 4. The duration of the punishment for ever.
Sufferings for sin (as we have divers times said before) are such as are poenall essentially, viz. in respect of the punishment considered in it self, namely, the privation of the present fruition of the good of the promise, and inflicting of the sinlesse misery of the curse: or consequentially, viz. not in respect of the punishment it self, but in respect of the condition of the Patient, such are called detestable consequents, namely sins, imperfections, &c. And evils that are proper to the reprobate. 3. Innumerable common sorrows of this life. 4. The duration of the punishment for ever.
As the eternal virtue of Christs sufferings redeemed us from the eternity of suffering formally, so Christ in suffering the wrath of God formally, suffered virtually whatsoever was due to the Elect for their sin, and so by suffering redeemed us from all the properly-penal curses of the Law whatsoever.
As the eternall vertue of Christs sufferings redeemed us from the eternity of suffering formally, so Christ in suffering the wrath of God formally, suffered virtually whatsoever was due to the Elect for their sin, and so by suffering redeemed us from all the properly-poenall curses of the Law whatsoever.