A89732:518
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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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.
Dialogu. This act of Christ was an everlasting act of Mediatorial obedience, it was no legal obedience, nor was it any humane act of obedience, as all legal obedience must be, but it was a supernatural act of obedience, it was no less then a Mediatorial oblation, and therefore it was the meritorious procuring cause of our Redemption from the curse of the Law even at that very same time when Christ was made a curse for us, by hanging as a Malefactor upon a tree.
Dialogu. This act of Christ was an everlasting act of Mediatoriall obedience, it was no legall obedience, nor was it any humane act of obedience, as all legall obedience must be, but it was a supernaturall act of obedience, it was no lesse then a Mediatoriall oblation, and therefore it was the meritorious procuring cause of our Redemption from the curse of the Law even at that very same time when Christ was made a curse for us, by hanging as a Malefactor upon a tree.