A89732:501
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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M. Goodwin and M. Ainsworth from the Hebrew Doctors reckon 18 particular capital sins, for which men were first stoned to death and after hanged, and M. Ainsworth doth also say, that the Hebrew Doctors do not understand this hanging of being put to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death, which was done for the greater detestation of such heinous malefactors.
M. Goodwin and M. Ainsworth from the Hebrew Doctors reckon 18 particular capitall sins, for which men were first stoned to death and after hanged, and M. Ainsworth doth also say, that the Hebrew Doctors do not understand this hanging of being put to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death, which was done for the greater detestation of such heinous malefactors.
Answ. M. Ainsworth upon Exo. 12.21. telleth us that the Hebrew Doctors say, that all that were to be stoned ⟨p. 99⟩death by the Law, were 18. but he doth not there say, that after they were stoned they were hanged;1 though the Hebrew Doctors say there were 18 sins for which men were stoned and hanged (not women, see Ainsworth on Deut. 21.22.) yet Moses doth not say so. Who is ignorant that the Jewish and Roman manner of hanging was (as Calvin saith) diverse? or who denieth the manner of the Jews for a long time to be according to their Doctors writings? but we look at this discourse as impertinent. It doth not appear that hanging by divine institution above all other punishments pointed out the detestation of the fact. If it did, the person hanged was so much the fitter to be infamed with that curse, which might render him a type of the truth in controversy, namely, that Christ who was hanged upon the tree, was the most heinous Malefactor imputatively.