A89732:539
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. 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, Luk. 23.43. and that Haides doth comprehend in it a double lot (as Britain doth comprehend England and Scotland) is evident by the use of the Greek word in sundry Greek Authors, and according to this sense M. Robert Wilmot hath expounded this Article, wherein he doth also approve of the judgement of M. Broughton in his Exposition of this Article.
Dialogu. Others alledge 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, Luk. 23.43. and that Haides doth comprehend in it a double lot (as Britain doth comprehend England and Scotland) is evident by the use of the Greek word in sundry Greek Authours, and according to this sense M. Robert Wilmot hath expounded this Article, wherein he doth also approve of the judgement of M. Broughton in his Exposition of this Article.
Answ. This Article of the Creed is not found in the Scripture in terms,