A89732:390
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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Answ. To consider Christ as man distinct from the consideration of Christ as Mediator, is to consider the Mediator without the consideration of him as man, that is, to consider the Mediator as not a Mediator: for it is essential to Christ as Mediator to be Godman.
Answ. To consider Christ as man distinct from the consideration of Christ as Mediatour, is to consider the Mediatour without the consideration of him as man, that is, to consider the Mediatour as not a Mediatour: for it is essentiall to Christ as Mediatour to be Godman.
That prayer of Christ Mat. 26.39. was as much the prayer of the Mediator as this Heb. 5.7. neither was the manhood more concerned in that then in this.
That praier of Christ Mat. 26.39. was as much the praier of the Mediatour as this Heb. 5.7. neither was the manhood more concerned in that then in this.
To understand by death Heb. 5.7. his natural fear of death, and by that his fear of offending God by his natural unwillingness to die (for so you expound your self) beside the manifest and fearless violence offered thereby unto the text, is (that you may wave the true cause of his fear, namely, the wrath of God, together with your silencing the wonted cause asserted by you, namely, the fear of bodily death) to devise a new cause of the fear of Christ, viz. lest he should offend God, i. e. lest he should sin, choosing rather to say, that Christ was afraid of the evil of sin then of the evil of punishment for sin.