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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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Punishment doth not only signify a suffering, but such a suffering, that is, suffering for offence in way of justice. Had Christ suffered death without guilt imputed, his death could not have been called a punishment: thus, whilst you acknowledge Christ to have born punishment and born sin, and that by just consequence at least in the account of God, and yet deny the imputation of sin, you run your self into a contradiction.
Punishment doth not only signifie a suffering, but such a suffering, that is, suffering for offence in way of justice. Had Christ suffered death without guilt imputed, his death could not have been called a punishment: thus, whilest you acknowledge Christ to have born punishment and born sin, and that by just consequeoce at least in the account of God, and yet deny the imputation of sinne, you run your self into a contradiction.
He bare our sins in his body, but not only in his body: Body is here taken synecdochically both for body and soul: a part of the humane nature for the whole: he bare them upon the tree, that is, he bare the curse due to sin, Gal 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: he bare the moral curse which was the truth signified by the Ceremonial curse,