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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. Scanderbeg was in such an agony when he was fighting against the Turks, that the blood hath been seen to burst out of his lips with very eagerness of spirit only; I have heard also from credible persont, that Alexander the great did sweat blood in the courageous defence of himself and others. The sweating sickness caused many to sweat out of their bodies a bloody humour, and yet many did recover and live many years after, but if their sweating blood had been a sign of Gods wrath upon their souls (as you say it was in Christ) then I think they could not have lived any longer by the strength of nature.
Dialogu. Scanderbeg was in such an agony when he was fighting against the Turks, that the bloud hath been seen to burst out of his lips with very eagernesse of spirit only; I have heard also from credible persont, that Alexander the great did sweat bloud in the couragious defence of himself and others. The sweaeting sicknesse caused many to sweat out of their bodies a bloudy humour, and yet many did recover and live many years after, but if their sweating bloud had been a sign of Gods wrath upon their souls (as you say it was in Christ) then I think they could not have lived any longer by the strength of nature.
Answ. The effusion of certain drops of blood at Scanderberg's lips, through the commotion of his spirits, was no sweat; Your information concerning Alexander in all probability is a mistake, there being no such matter reported of him by the ordinary Historiographers of his life. It was but a bloody humour if so (and in a time of sickness) not blood,1 that you mention at the sweating sickness. Aristotle reports of one that sometimes sweat a kind of bloody excrement, which yet he looked at proceeding from an evil disposition of the body. Theophrastus confirmeth the same. Fernelius writes that he saw blood effused out of the extremity of the veins, ⟨p. 66⟩through infirmity of the Liver and the Retentive faculty.2