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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 Did Christ inflict the torments of hell upon his own humane nature? was his Divine nature angry with his humane nature? or did his Divine nature forsake his humane nature in anger? as it must have done if it had suffered the torments of hell; if so, then he destroyed the personal union of his two natures, and then he made himself no Mediator but a cursed damned sinner.
Dialogu Did Christ inflict the torments of hell upon his own humane nature? was his Divine nature angry with his humane nature? or did his Divine nature forsake his humane nature in anger? as it must have done if it had suffered the torments of hell; if so, then he destroyed the personall union of his two natures, and then he made himself no Mediatour but a cursed damned sinner.
Answ. The second Person of the Trinity is to be considered according to his subsistence in the Divine nature only, or as he subsists in personal union with the man-hood: In the first consideration, He together with the Father and the holy Ghost did inflict the ⟨p. 123⟩torments of hell upon the humane nature. All the works of the Trinity upon the creature, whereof this is one, Isa. 53.10. Mat. 26.31. are undivided, that is, they are wrought by all the persons jointly. In this consideration also the divine nature was angry not only with the humane nature, but with the person of the Mediator, because of sin imputed to him, and forsook him with a temporal and partial desertion. But hence in no ways followeth the dissolution of the personal union; as the body and soul of Christ separated one from the other continued in personal union, so the soul and body separated from all participation of the good of the promise for the while, were without dissolution of the Personal Union.
Answ. The second Person of the Trinity is to be considered according to his subsistence in the Divine nature only, or as he subsists in personall union with the man-hood: In the first consideration, He together with the Father and the holy Ghost did inflict the