A89732:517
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. 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.
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 Mediatour and as a Malefactor in Gods account. Of his dying as a Mediatour and as a Malefactor in the sense of the Dialogue, See before, Ch. 10.