A89732:513
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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Dialogu. But if the circumstances of the Text be well marked, they will tell you plainly, that this hanging upon a tree cannot be a type of the eternal curse; for 1. This Law ⟨p. 102⟩of Moses must not be understood of putting any man to death by hanging, but of hanging of a dead body upon a tree after it was first put to death by stoning: but Christ was crucified whilst he was alive. 2. This hanging in Moses time was done by the judicial Law and civil Magistrates, and not by the ceremonial Law nor the Priests. 3. This hanging in Moses was commanded to be practised by the Magistrates of the Jews Common-wealth, but the death which Christ suffered was a Roman kind of death.
Dialogu. But if the circumstances of the Text be well marked, they will tell you plainly, that this hanging upon a tree cannot be a type of the eternall curse; for 1. This Law ⟨p. 102⟩of Moses must not be understood of putting any man to death by hanging, but of hanging of a dead body upon a tree after it was first put to death by stoning: but Christ was crucified whilest he was alive. 2. This hanging in Moses time was done by the judiciall Law and civil Magistrates, and not by the ceremoniall Law nor the Priests. 3. This hanging in Moses was commanded to be practised by the Magistrates of the Iews Common-wealth, but the death which Christ suffered was a Roman kinde of death.
Answ. Yet Paul who well marked and understood also the Circumstances of the Text, telleth us plainly, Gal. 3.13. that Christ hanging upon the Cross, though by the Roman power, and also after a Roman manner, was intended in, and proved out of Deut. 21.23. The ceremonial curse therefore was laid upon every one that was judicially hanged upon a tree in Judea, from the time of the giving of this Law until the time of the passion of Christ, by what lawful authority soever, or after what manner soever.