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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. 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 Rondelettius tells us, that he saw in the year 1547. a kind of bloody sweat in a certain Student, occasioned by some defects of the veins, bones, and thinness of blood. Maldonat upon Mat. 26. makes mention of a man at Paris, strong, and in health, who having received the sentence of death was bedewed with a bloody sweat. But this bloody sweat of Christ (properly so) flowing from such a person, and free from all distemper, either of body or mind, and in such a manner and plenty (as Luke reports) differed much from all these. Whether the sweat of Christ were natural or miraculous, we leave it to them that have leisure and skill to enquire, though the Evangelist mentioneth it as an effect proceeding from a greater cause then the fear of a meet natural death; all which notwithstanding, yet is not our doctrine built only or chiefly upon this Argument.
Answ. The effusion of certain drops of bloud at Scanderbergs 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 bloudy humour if so (and in a time of sicknesse) not bloud,1 that you mention at the sweating sicknesse. Aristotle reports of one that sometimes sweat a kinde of bloudy excrement, which yet he looked at proceeding from an evil disposition of the body. Theophrastus confirmeth the same. Fernelius writes that he saw bloud effused out of the extremity of the veins,