A89732:423
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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The leaving or forsaking here is not only bodily, but chiefly spiritual; The matter propounded in the first verse, and amplified in the body of the Psalm, is the same; namely, the passion of Christ, Psa. 22. hath amplification of griefs caused by men instrumentally, and by Gods anger as the efficient cause; Gods anger and mens herein are not opposite, but subordinate one to another. Anger in Scripture is taken sometimes for the hatred of God unto a person: sometime for the execution of vindicative ⟨p. 79⟩justice, in the latter sense God was angry with Christ, not in the former.1 Forsaking is either total and final, so God forsakes the Reprobate; or partial and temporal, as concerning the fruition and sense of the good of the promise, so God forsook Christ, and of this forsaking Christ complaineth in this place, being a principal part of that punishment, which Christ as the surety of the Elect was to undergo; the words clearly holding forth this truth, the Text neither according to Grammatical sense, nor Analogy of faith can admit of any better interpretation. Christ in his death was made sin imputatively, that is, he suffered the guilt and punishment of sin, a chief part whereof was this divine penal desertion, his death was joined with the curse, made up of the pain of sense, and the pain of loss: If the pain of loss be not joined with the pain of sense, there can be no sufficient cause given of so bitter and lamentable a cry for that person who was God man, therefore it follows by good consequence, that Christ doth complain Psa. 22. that God had forsaken him in anger for our sin.
The leaving or forsaking here is not only bodily, but chiefly spirituall; The matter propounded in the first verse, and amplified in the body of the Psalm, is the same; namely, the passion of Christ, Psa. 22. hath amplification of griefs caused by men instrumentally, and by Gods anger as the efficient cause; Gods anger and mens herein are not opposite, but subordinate one to another. Anger in Scripture is taken sometimes for the hatred of God unto a person: sometime for the execution of vindicative