A89732:603
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 execution of the evil of the curse denieth communion but not union with God. The evil of the commination denounced and incurred, as touching our legal obnoxiousness thereunto, dissolveth not the union of the Elect with God in the everlasting covenant of grace, nor doth the denouncing, incurring the danger, and undergoing of the punishment dissolve the union of the election of Christ, Isa. 42.1. much less doth it dissolve the personal union.
The execution of the evil of the curse denieth communion but not union with God. The evil of the commination denounced and incurred, as touching our legall obnoxiousnesse thereunto, dissolveth not the union of the Elect with God in the everlasting covenant of grace, nor doth the denouncing, incurring the danger, and undergoing of the punishment dissolve the union of the election of Christ, Isa. 42.1. much lesse doth it dissolve the personal union.
The Second Person considered as subsisting in personal union with the manhood,1 and as Mediator is properly Christ, and so though the manhood only suffered, yet the Person that suffered being God-man the person of the Mediator, and consequently the Divine nature by way of voluntary dispensation was subject to the Divine nature considered absolutely and in it self.
The Second Person considered as subsisting in personall union with the manhood,1 and as Mediatour is properly Christ, and so though the manhood only suffered, yet the Person that suffered being God-man the person of the Mediatour, and consequently the Divine nature by way of voluntary dispensation was subject to the Divine nature considered absolutely and in it self.