A89732:492
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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There were Malefactors hanged before the giving of this Law, Deu. 21.23. yet we read not that they were accursed, during the space between the giving of this Law and the Passion of Christ, a malefactor hanged out of Judea was not accursed. In Judea no person how great a malefactor soever if not hanged was thus accursed: The person hanged was equally accursed, whether he was hanged alive or dead, whether he was hanged after this manner or after that, Jewish or Roman, &c. whether his crime were more heinous, or not so heinous. yea, for ought appeareth, though he were innocent, yet if hanged judicially he was accursed. Since the Passion of Christ, hanging in Judea, is not ceremonially accursed.
There were Malefactors hanged before the giving of this Law, Deu. 21.23. yet we reade not that they were accursed, during the space between the giving of this Law and the Passion of Christ, a malefactor hanged out of Judea was not accursed. In Iudea no person how great a malefector soever if not hanged was thus accursed: The person hanged was equally accursed, whether he was hanged alive or dead, whether he was hanged after this manner or after that, Jewish or Romane, &c. whether his crime were more hainous, or not so hainous. yea, for ought appeareth, though he were innocent, yet if hanged judicially he was accursed. Since the Passion of Christ, hanging in Iudea, is not ceremonially accursed.
For otherwise (saith Junius) neither according to the Law of nature, nor according to civill Law,1 nor in respect of the thing it self, is he that is hanged, accursed; seeing therefore the cause why the carcass of him that is hanged, must not continue all night unburied, is ceremonial; Christ being the body, and fulfilling of the ceremonies, it is no doubt but in this ceremonial curse (Moses himself being a Type of our eternal Mediator) had respect unto our eternal and perfect mediation. This Exposition making the man that was hanged