A89732:414
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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2. The frequent use of it in this sense by Greek Authors both sacred and secular, as also Philosophers, Historiographers, and Poets.
2. The frequent use of it in this sense by Greek Authours both sacred and secular, as also Philosophers, Historiographers, and Poets.
3. Analogy of Scripture.
4. The mention of death that great object of fear, together with the affection of fear in the same verse, And
Lastly, Because the Greek preposition annexed thereunto, doth not well agree with the translation of it by reverence. For though the preposition according to Bellarmines instances is read with a genitive case, and noteth the internal cause of an action; yet it never is observed to signify the external moving cause of an action, which is the present case. Pareus (who disalloweth neither of the interpretations, yet thinks the Syriac interpreter to have best understood the place, and cleared the text)