A89732:588
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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As the Manhood of Christ was partaker of the joys of heaven out of the place of heaven (if not ⟨p. 120⟩at other times, as Luk 9.28. yet) after the Resurrection; so might it suffer the pains of hell out of the place of hell. The prison is no part of the essential debt. The most Popish enemies of Christs soul-sufferings of the wrath of God (whilst, though in their erroneous asserting the local descent, they affirm an actuality concerning Christs being in the place of hell without the pains of hell,) cannot with any reason deny a possibility of being in the pains of hell without the place of hell.
As the Manhood of Christ was partaker of the joys of heaven out of the place of heaven (if not ⟨p. 120⟩at other times, as Luk 9.28. yet) after the Resurrection; so might it suffer the pains of hell out of the place of hell. The prison is no part of the essentiall debt. The most Popish enemies of Christs soul-sufferings of the wrath of God (whilest, though in their erroneous asserting the locall descent, they affirm an actuality concerning Christs being in the place of hell without the pains of hell,) cannot with any reason deny a possibility of being in the pains of hell without the place of hell.
1Christ was in a penal hell, not in a local hell; the distinction between a penal hell and a local hell is nor only acknowledged unto this day by the Orthodox, but was long ago taught by sundry of the Learned and sounder Schoolmen.
1Christ was in a paenall hell, not in a locall hell; the distinction between a paenall hell and a locall hell is nor only acknowledged unto this day by the Orthodox, but was long ago taught by sundry of the Learned and sounder Schoolmen.