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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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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.
The sufferings that fell upon Christ before his sufferings in the garden, because they were in degree much lesse 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 meer 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 burthen was laid upon him, pressed him with a mighty weight, and wherein he felt that he had to doe with the judgement of God.
Those words of Matthew c. 24.8. All these are the ⟨p. 59⟩