A89732:618
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. 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 to be the speech of an Atheist against the assertion of the immortality of the soul, and principally both of the felicity and immortality of the souls of good men; For whereas (saith the Atheist) men talk of an immortal soul of man, which severed from the body ascends up to heaven, and that the soul of a brute beast descends downward, that it falleth and perisheth together with the body; they do but speak by guess, who knows it? who ever saw it? what Anatomist can find it out? The opposition then herein intended by the Atheist, lieth not between the spirit of a beast, and the soul of man in general, but between the soul of a beast, and the soul of such men, which severed from their bodies ascend up to heaven, that is, godly men, whose spirits return to God that gave them,