A89732:610
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. M, Broughton in a Manuscript saith thus: No words in all the Bible do express any thing, that Christ suffered the wrath of God for our sins, therefore it is no small impiety for men from general metaphorical terms to gather such a strange particular: none that ever spake Greek (Spirit or man) gathered hell torments for the just from Haides, or from any other Greek or Hebrew Text. Again, the same Author affirmeth in Rev. 11.7, that hell-place and torments are not in this life.
Dialogu. M, Broughton in a Manuscript saith thus: No words in all the Bible do expresse any thing, that Christ suffered the wrath of God for our sins, therefore it is no small impiety for men from generall metaphoricall terms to gather such a strange particular: none that ever spake Greek (Spirit or man) gathered hell torments for the just from Haides, or from any other Greek or Hebrew Text. Again, the same Authour affirmeth in Rev. 11.7, that hell-place and torments are not in this life.
Answ. That Christs suffering of the wrath of God is by just and manifest consequence plentifully held forth in the Scriptures is to us undoubted (and I hope fully and clearly evinced) the denial whereof is not only no small but a great impiety.
Answ. That Christs suffering of the wrath of God is by just and manifest consequence plentifully held forth in the Scriptures is to us undoubted (and I hope fully and clearly evinced) the deniall whereof is not only no small but a great impiety.
Though the place of the damned who suffer the wrath of God be included in Haides, taken in its largest signification both by divine and secular authors, as any that know not already may soon if they please inform themselves: yet that ever any Orthodox indifferently-learned writer, thence gathered hell torments for the just, I do not believe is any where extant, except in that Manuscript or the Dialogue.