A89732:504
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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Answ. The Dialogue saith so, but not the Text, interpreters look at the Law concerning the disobedient son, and the Law concerning the person hanged, as distinct laws, whether so or not is not material to the point in hand.
Answ. The Dialogue saith so, but not the Text, interpreters look at the Law concerning the disobedient son, and the Law concerning the person hanged, as distinct laws, whether so or not is not materiall to the point in hand.
Dialogu. Thou shalt not let his carcass remain all night upon the Tree, but thou shalt surely bury him in the same day at the going down of the Sun, and the reason is added, because he is the cursed of God, namely, because such sinners are more eminently cursed of God, because they were punished with the heaviest kind of death that the Judges of Israel did use to inflict upon any Malefactors.
Dialogu. Thou shalt not let his carkasse remain all night upon the Tree, but thou shalt surely bury him in the same day at the going down of the Sun, and the reason is added, because he is the cursed of God, namely, because such sinners are more eminently cursed of God, because they were punished with the heaviest kinde of death that the Iudges of Israel did use to inflict upon any Malefactors.
Answ. All that were hanged, and only those that were hanged in Judea, after this Law given, were thus accursed, without reference to any other punishment suffered or not. Though hanging of it self concludeth ⟨p. 100⟩the person accursed, yet not punished with the heaviest kind of death. Stoning and burning were by the Hebrew Doctors themselves both distinguished from and accounted heavier then strangling or hanging. See Ainsw. on