A89732:397
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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This spoiling of the mediatorly efficacy of this oblation is a supposition of impossibility, therefore ⟨p. 74⟩could not be an object of fear to him who was only subject to pure and reasonable fear.1
- 1Significat timorem rationabilem. Cham. de descen. l. 5. c. 5.
Dialogu. The word [Greek or Hebrew] is noted to signify a reasonable fear.
Dialogu. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is noted to signifie a reasonable fear.
For he had from eternity covenanted with his father to give his soul (by his own active obedience) as a mediatorial sacrifice of atonement for our sins, Joh. •0.17, 18. therefore he must not die a positive death by the power of man, but he must die as Mediator by the actual and joint concurrence of both divine and humane nature: no man could force his soul out of his body by all the torments they could devise, but he must separate his own soul from his body by the joint concurrence of both his natures.
For he had from eternity covenanted with his father to give his soul (by his own active obedience) as a mediatoriall sacrifice of atonement for our sins, Joh. •0.17, 18. therefore he must not die a positive death by the power of man, but he must die as Mediator by the actuall and joynt concurrence of both divine and humane nature: no man could force his soul out of his body by all the torments they could devise, but he must separate his own soul from his body by the joint concurrence of both his natures.