A89732:622
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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If hell were in Aristotle's Element of fire (the very being of which sounder Philosophy denieth) yet if you hearkened either to the learned Philosophers or Mathematicians who distinguish the heaven of the blessed, and this inferior Universe into the visible and invisible world, and teach us, that there is a most vast (and unto the unlearned incredible) distance between the supposed Element of fire, and the first mover (what then is the distance between it and the heaven of heavens) you would not think that the blessed and damned could see and talk with one another.
If hell were in Aristotles Element of fire (the very being of which sounder Philosophy denieth) yet if you hearkened either to the learned Philosophers or Mathematicians who distinguish the heaven of the blessed, and this inferiour Universe into the visible and invisible world, and teach us, that there is a most vast (and unto the unlearned incredible) distance between the supposed Element of fire, and the first mover (what then is the distance beeween it and the heaven of heavens) you would not think that the blessed and damned could see and talk with one another.
1Your arguing the nearness of heaven and hell from the conference of Abraham and Dives in the Parable, argueth that the rule of interpreting Parables was not attended by you herein, namely, that a similitude or Parable is to be understood according to the principal scope and intention of the Author, and not to be extended beyond it.
1Your arguing the nearnesse of heaven and hell from the conference of Abraham and Dives in the Parable, argueth that the rule of interpreting Parables was not attended by you herein, namely, that a similitude or Parable is to be understood according to the principal scope and intention of the Authour, and not to be extended beyond it.
- 1Similitudo seu Parabola adaequetur principally scopo & intentioni declarantis, atque extra hanc non extendatur. Keck. log. l. 1. sect. post. c. 4. Calv. in