A89732:625
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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Calvin telleth you, That Christ by sensible figures doth here describe spiritual things, Souls (saith he) have not fingers, eye, nor do they feel thirst (I may add) neither have they tongues to be tormented with flames, but the sum is, Rest is prepared for the souls of the faithful departed, and torment for the souls of the Reprobate.
Calvin telleth you, That Christ by sensible figures doth here describe spiritual things, Souls (saith he) have not fingers, eye, nor do they feel thirst (I may adde) neither have they tongues to be tormented with flames, but the sum is, Rest is prepared for the souls of the faithfull departed, and torment for the souls of the Reprobate.
It cannot seem much, that he who forbeareth not ⟨p. 129⟩to charge the Evangelists comparison to be absurd, except it bear his absurd Expositions, doth so frequently burden the doctrine of the generation of the godly both learned and unlearned, concerning the imputation of sin unto Christ (being contrary to him) with absurd consequences.
It cannot seem much, that he who forbeareth not ⟨p. 129⟩to charge the Evangelists comparison to be absurd, except it bear his absurd Expositions, doth so frequently burthen the doctrine of the generation of the godly both learned and unlearned, concerning the imputation of sin unto Christ (being contrary to him) with absurd consequences.
I omit that the sentence of condemnation is passed in the sight of Christ, Angels, and the Saints. The sight of Angels and Spirits is intellectual, seeing their objects by intelligible species, not sensible seeing their objects by sensible species, as our bodily eyes see sensible objects. The damned see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven, Luk 13.28 not sensibly but mentally.