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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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Part 1 › Chapter 8: The Vindication of Mat. 26.37. Mar. 14.33. Luke 22.53.
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Dialogu. But Matthew and Mark in the place cited speak only of these sorrows which fell upon him in the night before his death: Matthew saith, he began grievously to be troubled, i.e. he began afresh to be troubled with a nearer apprehension of his death then formerly: M. Calvin in his Harmony upon those words, speaks to this effect; We have seen (saith he) our Lord wrestling with the fear of death before: but now (saith he) he buckleth his hands with the temptation, Matthew calls it the beginning of sorrow.
Dialogu. But Mathew and Mark in the place cited speak only of these sorrows which fell upon him in the night before his death: Mathew saith, he began grievously to be troubled, i.e. he began afresh to be troubled with a neerer apprehension af his death then formerly: M. Calvin in his Harmony upon those words, speaks to this effect; We have seen (saith he) our Lord wrestling with the fear of death before: but now (saith he) he buckleth his hands with the temptation, Matthew cals it the beginning of sorrow.
Answ. Be it so that he began to be troubled with the nearer approach of his death then formerly, this maketh nothing to prove your assertion, viz. that the death approaching was a bodily death only.
Answ. Be it so that he began to be troubled with the nearer approach of his death then formerly, this maketh nothing to prove your assertion, viz. that the death approaching was a bodily death onely.
The sufferings that fell upon Christ before his sufferings in the garden, because they were in degree much less then those that followed, are conveniently distinguished from them that fell upon him in the garden, and afterward Calvins meaning is that he conflicted before with the fear of death, but now with the sight of death: he meaneth not a mere bodily death only (as you say) but such a death as wherein (saith he) he took upon him the curse; and wherein our sins, whose burden was laid upon him, pressed him with a mighty weight, and wherein he felt that he had to do with the judgement of God.