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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. The Dialogues kind of reasoning is worse then very absurd, that first puts untruly upon Divines the affirmation of an error, and then censureth them as if that error were theirs: making them first guilty by an untruth, and then censuring them as truly guilty.
Answ. The Dialogues kinde of reasoning is worse then very absurd, that first puts untruly upon Divines the affirmation of an errour, and then censureth them as if that errour were theirs: making them first guilty by an untruth, and then censuring them as truly guilty.
Dialogu If Christ suffered the wrath of God in his soul to redeem our souls from the eternal curse, he must also suffer the wrath of God in his body to redeem our bodies ⟨p. 106⟩from the eternal curse, or else our bodies must still continue under the eternal curse, though our souls be redeemed by his soul-sufferings: Is not this to make Christ an imperfect Redeemer, and to leave a doubting conscience in a Labyrinth of doubts and querg's?
Dialogu If Christ suffered the wrath of God in his soul to redeem our souls from the eternall curse, he must also suffer the wrath of God in his body to redeem our bodies ⟨p. 106⟩from the eternall curse, or else our bodies must still continue under the eternal curse, though our souls be redeemed by his soul-sufferings: Is not this to make Christ an imperfect Redeemer, and to leave a doubting conscience in a Labyrinth of doubts and querg's?
Answ. Whilst you say, If Christ suffered the wrath of God in his soul, what is this but to deceive your less attentive Reader into a better opinion of your error by a scoffing inference (for you believe not that Christ suffered the wrath of God in his soul) added to an untruth immediately fore-going.