A89732:571
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. The second part of the torment of hell is the pain of sense, or the sense of all torturing torments.
Dialogu. The second part of the tormentt of hell is the pain of sense, or the sense of all torturing torments.
Answ. As we did formerly in the pain of loss, so now in the pain of sense, we are to distinguish between what is essential and what is accidental thereunto,1 otherwise the Question intending that which is essential only, but the description including both that which is essential and accidental, is apt to deceive the Reader by a fallacy, for the better preventing whereof, as before the Reader had a description of the pain of loss, so let him here if he please take along with him this description of the pain of sense.
Answ. As we did formerly in the pain of losse, so now in the pain of sense, we are to distinguish between what is essentiall and what is accidentall thereunto,1 otherwise the Question intending that which is essentiall only, but the description including both that which is essentiall and accidentall, is apt to deceive the Reader by a fallacy, for the better preventing whereof, as before the Reader had a description of the pain of losse, so let him here if he please take along with him this description of the pain of sense.
- 1Fallacia compositionis & div sionis.
The pain of sense taken essentially is the infl•cting of all the substantial positive evil of the curse flowing from it as such without any respect to the condition of the patient.