A89732:407
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. By death then here we are not only to understand the fear of death which elsewhere you seem to say. He prayed to be delivered, and we delivered from the dominion of death, i. e. of the cursed death of the cross; therefore he suffered the curse, i. e. the wrath of God.
Answ. By death then here we are not only to understand the fear of death which elsewhere you seem to say. He prayed to be delivered, and we delivered from the dominion of death, i. e. of the cursed death of the crosse; therefore he suffered the curse, i. e. the wrath of God.
Dialogu. Neither doth the word Fear in this Text signify such an amazed natural fear of death as the other word Fear doth signify, Mar. 14.33. which word I have expounded to signify our Saviours troubled natural fear of death, and no more.
Dialogu. Neither doth the word Fear in this Text signifie such an amazed naturall fear of death as the other word Fear doth signifie, Mar. 14.33. which word I have expounded to signifie our Saviours troubled naturall fear of death, and no more.
Answ. According to you Fear Mar. 14.33. signifieth natural fear of death and no more: but Fear Heb. 5.7. signifieth a godly fear, lest he should offend God by his unwillingness to die, that is, Mark speaks of a natural fear of a natural evil, the Author to the Hebrews of a moral fear of a moral evil; a distinction as vain as weak, without any warrant. The object of fear in both places is the same, why should not the affection of fear at least for the kind of it be the same? He offered up prayers with strong cries,