A89732:494
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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In that Christ Gal. 3.13. is expressly said to be a curse, it will thence unavoidably follow, that sin was some way judicially upon Christ; for we read of no curse inflicted according to the determinate and revealed way of proceeding with the reasonable creature, but presupposeth sin. Wherefore he could neither have been made a curse, nor die, since the only cause of the curse and of death is sin, from the which he was free,1 but because he had taken upon him our sins. So Luther.
In that Christ Gal. 3.13. is expresly said to be a curse, it will thence unavoidably follow, that sinne was some way judicially upon Christ; for we reade of no curse inflicted according to the determinate and revealed way of proceeding with the reasonable creature, but presupposeth sin. Wherefore he could neither have been made a curse, nor die, since the only cause of the curse and of death is sin, from the which he was free,1 but because he had taken upon him our sins. So Luther.
- 1Luther in Gal. 3.13.
This Proposition then, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree, is a typical proposition, and containeth in it these two truths. 1. That every one that hangeth upon a tree in Judea from the promulgation of that curse until the Passion of Christ inclusively, is ceremonially accursed, i. e. all that are hanged shall be infamed with this special infamy, that the carcasses of such, in case they be not buried before Sun-set shall defile the Land. 2. That Christ in testimony that he redeemed us by beating the moral curse should be hanged upon a tree.