A89732:479
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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Dialogu. IN this Text the Apostle speaks of a twofold curse, 1. He speaks of the eternal curse in ver. 10.2. Of an outward temporary curse, in ver. 14. such as all men do suffer, who are hanged upon a tree; the Apostle brings in this latter curse in a Rhetorical manner only, saying thus, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law (namely, from the eternal curse at the very self-same time) when he was made (not that curse, but) a curse for us according to Deuter. 21.23.
Dialogu. IN this Text the Apostle speaks of a twofold curse, 1. He speaks of the eternall curse in ver. 10.2. Of an outward temporary curse, in ver. 14. such as all men do suffer, who are hanged upon a tree; the Apostle brings in this latter curse in a Rhetoricall manner only, saying thus, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law (namely, from the eternall curse at the very self-same time) when he was made (not that curse, but) a curse for us according to Deuter. 21.23.
Answ. The Apostle ver. 13. according to the stream of Interpreters answers an Objection arising out of vers. 10. thus, If every one be cursed that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them, it followeth then that all are accursed, because no one continueth in all things ⟨p. 91⟩which are written in the book of the Law to do them; No, saith Paul, 1for notwithstanding all are accursed in themselves, yet Christ hath redeemed us that believe (not only freed us, as you corruptly turn it) by laying down a just price, from the curse of the Law, i.e. from the sentence of the Law called a curse actively, and the execution of justice according to that sentence, called the curse passively. How? By being made a curse, i.e. that moral curse for us. But how doth that appear? For it is written, viz.