A89732:637
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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It is no way repugnant to the justice of God, saith Ursinus, and after him Paraeus, that a person innocent in himself should die for the sin of another, upon such conditions as were mentioned Chap. 3.
It is no way repugnant to the justice of God, saith Ʋrsinus, and after him Paraeus, that a person innocent in himself should die for the sin of another, upon such conditions as were mentioned Chap. 3.
Dialogu And as God doth tie himself to this Rule of justice touching the everlasting state of mens souls, so he doth appoint civil Magistrates to observe this Rule of justice touching the bodiet of sinful Malefactors, they may not punish an innocent for a guilty person, but that man only that sins must die, as 2 Kin. 14. doth expound the meaning of the judicial Law. in Deut. 24.16. I hold it a point of gross injustice for any Court of Magistrates to torture an innocent person for the redemption of a gross Malefactor.
Dialogu And as God doth tye himself to this Rule of iustice touching the everlasting state of mens souls, so he doth appoint civil Magistrates to observe this Rule of iustice touching the bodiet of sinfull Malefactors, they may not punish an innocent for a guilty person, but that man only that sins must die, as 2 Kin. 14. doth expound the meaning of the iudicial Law. in Deut. 24.16. I hold it a point of grosse iniustice for any Court of Magistrates to torture an innocent person for the redemption of a grosse Malefactor.