A89732:463
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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1. Extreme sorrow, and he began to be sorrowful and very heavy, then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death, Mat. 26.36, 37. His sorrow was lethal and deadly, both extensively and intensively; extensively, continuing unto the last gasp: intensively, killing of it self in time; had ⟨p. 88⟩there been no other causes resolving and melting the soul gradually, as wax is melted with the heat. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels, Psa. 22.14.
1. Extreme sorrow, and he began to be sorrowfull and very heavy, then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowfull even unto death, Mat. 26.36, 37. His sorrow was lethal and deadly, both extensively and intensively; extensively, continuing unto the last gasp: intensively, killing of it self in time; had ⟨p. 88⟩there been no other causes resolving and melting the soul gradually, as wax is melted with the heat. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels, Psa. 22.14.
12. Amazement, and he began to be sore amazed, Mar. 14 33. which signifieth an universal cessation of all the faculties of the soul from their several functions, Physicians call it an Horripilation, we usually a Consternation; Like a clock in kelter, yet stopped for the while from going, by some hand laid upon it. That such intermission of the operations of the soul, the effect of this formidable concussion, might be without sin, is evident to him that remembers Christ slept, Sleep ordinarily implying a cessation of the exercise of the intellectual faculties for the time.