A89732:216
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 Evangelist Matthew hath expounded this text in a quite contrary sense, Mat. 8.17. saying, that this Text was fulfilled when Christ did bear our infirmities and sicknesses from the sick, not as a Porter bears a burden by laying them on his own body, but bear them away by his own power.
Dialogu. The Evangelist Mathew hath expounded this text in a quite contrary sense, Mat. 8.17. saying, that this Text was fullfilled when Christ did bear our infirmities and sicknesses from the sick, not as a Porter bears a burthen by laying them on his own body, but bearthem away by his own power.
Answ. That the Prophet in this Text by griefs and sorrows intends sufferings due to us for sin, is plain from the scope of the Chapter, and the comparing of the 4. and 5. verses with 1 Pet. 2.24. that by bearing those griefs and sorrows, he intends Christs bearing them in our stead, appears ver 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12. of this chapter, as also from the collation of the two Hebrew words used in this very place; for though Nasa, he hath born, be of more general use, signifying sometimes to bear as a Porter beareth a ⟨p. 36⟩burden,1 and sometimes otherwise; yet Sabal he hath carried, signifying properly to bear as one beareth a burden, restraineth the sense of the former word, and limits it to the received interpretation.
Answ. That the Prophet in this Text by griefs and sorrows intends sufferings due to us for sinne, is plain from the scope of the Chapter, and the comparing of the 4. and 5. verses with