A89732:633
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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Paul telleth us that God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation, Rom. 3.25. The word is observed to signify a just and propitiatory expiation of sin.
Paul telleth us that God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation, Rom. 3.25. The word is observed to signifie a just and propitiatory expiation of sin.
Ezek. 18.20. argueth for, not against the justice of the death of Christ, The soul that sinneth shall die, Good: Man sinned, ergò man died. Christ was a sinner imputatively, though not inherently, and the soul that sinneth whether inherently or imputatively shall die.
1The death of the soul is either absolute, so none die but such as are inherently guilty; or Hypothetical, viz. Cautionary, in way of a Surety, that undertakes for the satisfaction of justice: so Christ suffered death.2 Austin calleth it a death not of condition but of crime: It is clear according to this Text, that every one shall bear his own iniquity. Who seeth not (saith Dr Willet) that the Prophet maketh exception of the person of the Mediator, for the Scripture testifieth of him, that he bare our iniquities, Isa. 53.11. Therefore as he bare our sins in himself, so also in Gods justice he was to bear the punishment for the same.