A89732:187
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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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.
'Tis true, Heb. 2.17. and 4.15.1 in all points he was like unto us, sin only excepted; in [All] generically, not individually; that is in [All] in respect of the general kinds of temptation, namely both bodily and spiritually, but not in [All] in respect of each particular passion and malady.
'Tis true, Heb. 2.17. and 4.15.1 in all points he was like unto us, sin only excepted; in [All] generically, not individually; that is in [All] in respect of the generall kindes of temptation, namely both bodily and spiritually, but not in [All] in respect of each particular passion and malady.
- 1Omnis poena damnatorū his duobus continetur generibus, ut aliae pertineant ad corpus, aliae ad animam. Cham. 1.2. l. 5. c. 19. s. 14.