A89732:617
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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3. Hence we may see the reason why Haides is put as a common name to both places; both places are usually called Haides in sundry Greek Writers, as if they were but two Regions in the same world of souls: one Region for the godly, and the other for the wicked, where the godly and the wicked may see each others condition, and talk together in their next adjacent parts, Luk. 16.23.
Answ. Wheresoever the place of hell is, is not material unto the Question in hand, the Reader therefore might have been spared this longer discourse; it is enough that Christ suffered the punishment though ⟨p. 127⟩not in the ordinary place of punishment: It hath now been oft and again said, the place of punishment is not of the essence of punishment; Joab suffered death though he suffered not in the common place of execution.
Answ. Wheresoever the place of hell is, is not materiall unto the Question in hand, the Reader therefore might have been spared this longer discourse; it is enough that Christ suffered the punishment though ⟨p. 127⟩not in the ordinary place of punishment: It hath now been oft and again said, the place of punishment is not of the essence of punishment; Joab suffered death though he suffered not in the common place of execution.
You may read in Pemble that in Eccl. 3.21.1