A89732:565
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 Dialogue needlessly here ventureth to tell us that the devils are not in hell, though Peter saith, God cast them down to hell, and John telleth us, Rev. 20.3. that the devil was bound a thousand years, and cast into the bottomless pit, the same word with that which is used by the Legion of devils concerning the place they feared, when they besought Christ, that he would not command them thither, Luke 8.31.
The Dialogue needlesly here ventureth to tell us that the devils are not in hell, though Peter saith, God cast them down to hell, and John telleth us, Rev. 20.3. that the devil was bound a thousand years, and cast into the bottomlesse pit, the same word with that which is used by the Legion of devils concerning the place they feared, when they besought Christ, that he would not command them thither, Luke 8.31.
Dialogu. And yet this pain of loss may a little further be explained by opening the term Second death, which may be in part described by comparing it with the first death, which I have at large described to be our spiritual death, or a loss of the life of our first pure nature, I may call it a death in corrupt and sinful qualities, as I have opened, Gen. 2.17. yea, all other miseries which fall upon us in this life till our bodies be rotten in the grave, I call them altogether the first death, because they do all befall us in this world; therefore on the contrary the second death must needs imply a deeper degree of sinful qualities then did befall us under the first death.
Dialogu. And yet this pain of losse may a little further be explained by opening the term Second death, which may be in part described by comparing it with the first death, which I have at large described to be our spirituall death, or a losse of the life of our first pure nature, I may call it a death in corrupt and sinfull qualities, as I have opened,