A89732:538
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. We doubt not but God doth clear his truth more and more in every age, neither do we doubt of fundamental truth continuing the same to his in all ages. As at the coming of Christ, Satan opposed the true Christ with raising up false Christs, so at the breaking forth of the light, he opposeth the true light by false lights. If the doctrine of the Dialogue brought to the fiery trial be found to be darkness, and ours to be light; it deeply concerneth the Author timeously to remember that of the Prophet; ⟨p. 109⟩Woe be to them that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, Isa. 5.20.
Answ. We doubt not but God doth clear his truth more and more in every age, neither do we doubt of fundamentall truth continuing the same to his in all ages. As at the coming of Christ, Satan opposed the true Christ with raising up false Christs, so at the breaking forth of the light, he opposeth the true light by false lights. If the doctrine of the Dialogue brought to the fiery triall be found to be darknesse, and ours to be light; it deeply concerneth the Authour timously to remember that of the Prophet; ⟨p. 109⟩Wo be to them that put darknesse for light, and light for darknesse, Isa. 5.20.
Dialogu. Others allege the Article of Christs Descent, to prove, that Christ suffered the torments of hell in his soul for our Redemption; but the truth is, the Article speaks only of his souls passage from his body to Haides, which hath a double lot (when it is applied to the souls departed) a place of joy and a place of torment, so that all souls both good and bad go to Haides as soon as they are separated from the body: the bad do go to the place of torment in Haides, and the good go to the place of pleasure in Haides; therefore seeing Christ was a good man, even the Holy One of God, he must needs go to the place of pleasure in Haides, even to the Paradise,