A89732:497
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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This premised for the clearing of the Text, let us see, why according to you the word [Curse] in those words, being made a curse for us, Gal. 3.13. doth not signify the moral and eternal but an outward and temporal curse.
This premised for the clearing of the Text, let us see, why according to you the word [Curse] in those words, being made a curse for us, Gal. 3.13. doth not signifie the morall and eternall but an outward and temporall curse.
Dialogu. This latter curse is no other then an outward temporary curse; for the text in Deut. 21, 22. runs thus, If there be in a man a sin worthy of death, and thou hang him on a tree, &c. then he that is hanged is the curse of God. What curse of God is it, that is meant? I answer, that may be discerned by taking notice of what kind of persons, and for what kind of sin this curse of God doth fall upon any, The persons, the Text describes them thus, namely, he that is put to death as a Malefactor, by the Magistrate. The kind of sins that are said to deserve this curse of hanging upon a tree, are described by this general term, a sin worthy of death, namely of this death; hence it is evident, that not every sin that deserved death is here meant, but such as deserved a double death, namely, 1. Stoning to death. 2. Hanging up of their bodies upon a tree, after they were stoned to death.
Dialogu. This latter curse is no other then an outward temporary curse; for the text in Deut. 21, 22. runs thus, If there be in a man a sin worthy of death, and thou hang him on a tree, &c. then he that is hanged is the curse of God. What curse of God is it, that is meant? I answer, that may be discerned by taking notice of what kinde of persons, and for what kinde of sin this curse of God doth fall upon any, The persons, the Text describes them thus, namely, he that is put to death as a Malefactor, by the Magistrate. The kinde of sins that are said to deserve this curse of hanging upon a tree, are described by this generall term, a sinne worthy of death, namely of this death; hence it is evident, that not every sinne that deserved death is here meant, but such as deserved a double death, namely, 1. Stoning to death. 2. Hanging up of their bodies upon a tree, after they were stoned to death.