A89732:619
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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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, Eccles. 12.7.2 If the ascending of the spirit be extended unto the souls of the wicked, which upon their departure are (by some) thought immediately to ascend unto the place wherein God passeth judgement upon them, which done, they are delivered unto the hands of evil Angels to be carried forthwith into hell, which they judge to be below. This helpeth not you.
You may reade 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 Athiest) men talk of an immortal soul of man, which severed from the body ascends up to heaven, and that the soul of a bruit beast descends downward, that it falleth and perisheth together with the body; they do but speak by guesse, who knows it? who ever saw it? what Anatomist can finde it out? The opposition then herein intended by the Athiest, lieth not between the spirit of a beast, and the soul of man in generall, 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,