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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 And if he had died without manifesting fear of death, it would have occasioned woeful heresy; yea, notwithstanding the evident proof given of his humane nature, sundry heretics have denied the truth of his humane nature, it was necessary therefore that he should be pinched with the fear of death as much as his true humane nature could bear without sin, as Calvin well observeth.
Dialogu And if he had died without manifesting fear of death, it would have occasianed wofull heresie; yea, notwithstanding the evident proof given of his humane nature, sundry hereticks have denied the truth of his humane nature, it was necessary therefore that he should be pinched with the fear of death as much as his true humane nature could bear without sin, as Calvin well observeth.
Answ. There's difference between manifest fear and excessive fear: to have feared natural death with excessive fear, and that such as never man or woman manifested, was to have manifested something less then man. It was a sufficient manifestation of Christ to be man, that he was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, that he was in all points ⟨p. 62⟩tempted like to us,1 yet without sin. So far as I can find in Calvin (for you have not pointed to the place) you put in the word Therefore, and so force both it and the whole sentence to confirm your own premises, contrary to his mind, which is directly against you. See Calv. Comment. on Ver. 2.28. of the chapter mentioned.
Answ. There's difference between manifest fear and excessive fear: to have feared naturall death with excessive fear, and that such as never man or woman manifested, was to have manifested something lesse then man. It was a sufficient manifestation of Christ to be man, that he was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, that he was in all points ⟨p. 62⟩