A89732:596
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. His sufferings though temporal in respect of duration were eternal in efficacy in respect of the eminency of the Person, it was more for an infinite person to suffer for a time, then for all finite persons to suffer for ever. Christ suffered the torments of hell upon the Cross, where he bare the moral curse, Gal. 3.13. and in the garden, Mat. 26. though his sufferings in the garden and upon the Cross, are the principal, ⟨p. 122⟩and therefore called the Passion emphatically, yet the rest of his sufferings from his conception unto his passion are integral parts thereof, that is, such without which his passive obedience is not completed,
Answ. His sufferings though temporall in respect of duration were eternall in efficacy in respect of the eminency of the Person, it was more for an infinite person to suffer for a time, then for all finite persons to suffer for ever. Christ suffered the torments of hell upon the Crosse, where he bare the moral curse, Gal. 3.13. and in the garden, Mat. 26. though his sufferings in the garden and upon the Crosse, are the principal, ⟨p. 122⟩and therefore called the Passion emphatically, yet the rest of his sufferings from his conception unto his passion are integral parts thereof, that is, such without which his passive obedience is not compleated,
He was freed from them at his death, Job. 19.30. he was freed from the sensible part of his sufferings at his death, from sufferings simply at his Resurrection.