A89732:516
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. When the Romans did put Christ to that kind of death which they used to inflict upon their base fugitive slaves, they made him cursed in his death in the highest degree they could, and yet at the self-same time Christ did redeem us from the curse of the Law, even from the eternal curse, because Christ died not only as a Malefactor by the power of Roman soldiers, but he died also as a Mediator by his own Mediatorial obedience.
Dialogu. When the Romans did put Christ to that kinde of death which they used to inflict upon their base fugitive slaves, they made him cursed in his death in the highest degree they could, and yet at the self-same time Christ did redeem us from the curse of the Law, even from the eternall curse, because Christ died not only as a Malefactor by the power of Roman souldiers, but he died also as a Mediator by his own Mediatoriall obedience.
Answ. If he that only granteth Christ died as a Malefactor ⟨p. 103⟩in the Romans and Jews account, but denieth that he died a Malefactor in Gods account, should not put in that yet Christ died as a Mediator, he could expect no other but utmost abhorrence from every Christian man, for such a tenet as did not secretly steal away by subtle sophisms, but openly and before the Sun, spoil them of their Mediator.
The curse laid upon Christ hanging upon a tree, was not the curse of the Romans, or a humane but a divine curse, Gal. 3.13. Deut. 21.23. for he that is hanged is accursed of God. Christs death as a Malefactor in the Jews and Romans account unjustly, was a part, though but a small part of the just punishment of God inflicted upon him, as the great Malefactor imputatively in Gods account: Christ died both as a Mediator and as a Malefactor in Gods account. Of his dying as a Mediator and as a Malefactor in the sense of the Dialogue, See before, Ch. 10.