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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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The Minor is the Apostles, as appeareth by the causal particle, For, who proveth the fore-going part of the Text (which is his answer to the objection raised, as we saw before out of vers. 10. namely, Christ hath redeemed, &c.) by the following part, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree. If those words, Gal. 3.13. Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree, and that Text Deut. 21.23. have both but one and that the same one sense, what then hinders that the foregoing part of the verse, namely, redemption of us from the curse of the Law by being made a curse for us, is true of every one that was hanged upon a tree in Judea from Moses time until the passion of Christ inclusively, the latter words containing in them a proof of the former, as we saw just now from the causative particle, For. Then which inference what is more abominable?
The Minor is the Apostles, as appeareth by the causall particle, For, who proveth the fore-going part of the Text (which is his answer to the objection raised, as we saw before out of vers. 10. namely, Christ hath redeemed, &c.) by the following part, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree. If those words, Gal. 3.13. Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree, and that Text Deut. 21.23. have both but one and that the same one sense, what then hinders that the foregoing part of the verse, namely, redemption of us from the curse of the Law by being made a curse for us, is true of every one that was hanged upon a tree in Judea from Moses time until the passion of Christ inclusively, the latter words containing in them a proof of the former, as we saw just now from the causative particle, For. Then which inference what is more abominable?
The typical reason excepted, namely, of signifying Christ bearing the moral curse upon the tree, there can be no sufficient nor probable reason given, why hanging upon a tree should infame and fasten upon the person hanged this special curse, whence followed the defiling of the Land, in case the body continued unburied after Sun-set, above all other capital sufferings. For were all received which is said by the Hebrew Doctors, that is not repugnant unto Scripture, yet it is certain that some crimes for which they were hanged, were not so great as some crimes which were punished according to other capital sentences without hanging. As also that hanging after the manner of the Jews, was not