A89732:392
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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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.
To understand by death Heb. 5.7. his naturall fear of death, and by that his fear of offending God by his naturall unwillingnesse to die (for so you expound your self) beside the manifest and fearlesse 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.
That which it was impossible for Christ to be touched with, that Christ was not afraid of.
But to offend God by his unwillingness to die, was impossible for Christ to be touched with.
But to offend God by his unwillingnesse to die, was impossible for Christ to be touched with.