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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. Our Saviours complaint runs so in your interpretation, namely, as concerning men; but it runs not so according to truth either only or chiefly. He was not only a notorious malefactor (though unjustly according to men) as you would have it: but he was a notorious malefactor having upon him the guilt of the sins of the Elect by imputation, ⟨p. 80⟩and that justly before God.
Answ. Our Saviours complaint runs so in your interpretation, namely, as concerning men; but it runs not so according to truth either only or chiefly. He was not only a notorious malefactor (though unjustly according to men) as you would have it: but he was a notorious malefactor having upon him the guilt of the sinnes of the Elect by imputation, ⟨p. 80⟩and that justly before God.
It is as fit a phrase to say Why hast thou forsaken me in the hands of my malignant adversaries, as to say Why hast thou left me into the hands of my malignant adversaries. The words of the Psalmist are, Why hast thou forsaken me, or Why hast thou left me? and no more: the addition, fit or unfit is the Dialogues paraphrase, not the Psalmists phrase.
Dialogu God forsakes the damned totally and finally, because there is no place of repentance left open to them, but he did not so forsake his son, neither did he forsake his son by any inward desertion, as he doth sometimes forsake his own people for the trial of their grace: but he left his son only outwardly when he left him into the hands of Tyrants to be punished as a malefactor without any due trial of his cause.