A89732:629
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The word [Throne] is not in the Text, Rev. 14.10. but it is your addition haply to make your notion the more plausible.
Of Haides we have spoken sufficiently before.
Dialogu. It is evident that Christ did not suffer the torments of hell in this world, because there was no necessary use or end of such sufferings, for such sufferings are no way satisfactory to the justice of God for our sins: for the rule of Gods justice doth require that soul only to die which sins, the soul that sins shall die; one man shall not die for another mans sin, Ezek, 18. By this rule of justice God cannot inflict the torments of hell upon an innocent to redeem a guilty person.