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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. 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 Exod. 12.21. If they were dead before they were hanged, they felt not the pain of hanging. All that were slain before they were hanged were not stoned, Josh. 10.26. If a man were both stoned and hanged, yet stoning and burning was as heavy, if not a heavier punishment, of which last execution we read expressly, Josh. 7. but not so of the first. Even according to the Hebrew Doctors alleged by M. Goodwin and M. Ainsworth, you may observe some offences punished with stoning and burning, not so heinous as some offences punished by other deaths. Lying with his daughter in law, or a betrothed maid, was according to them punished with stoning to death and hanging: whereas lying with his daughter, and that whilst his wife lived, was punished with burning, and murder was punished with the sword. Ains. on Exo. 12.21. The reason why such sinners as were hanged were more eminently cursed of God, then other malefactors, was not because they were punished with the heaviest kind of death, but for the typical use of this death.
Answ. All that were hanged, and only those that were hanged in Iudea, 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 kinde of death. Stoning and burning were by the Hebrew Doctors themselves both distinguished from and accounted heavier then strangling or hanging. See Ainsw. on