A89732:711
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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Christ was both Priest, Sacrifice, and Altar. The humane nature only suffered (therefore most properly was the sacrifice) yet so, as in Personal union with the Godhead, the Divine nature was that which upheld the humane: The person consisting of both natures was the Priest.
Christ offered up himself before his humane nature was dissolved by death, which consideration might have prevented that objection in this place: though the union of the body with the soul was dissolved by death,1 yet the union both of soul and body with the second Person continued undissolved, the separation of the soul from the body loosed not the ⟨p. 151⟩union of both with the Divine nature,2 they were locally separated the one from the other, but both united hypostatically, i. e. personally with the Deity. Neither the soul nor the body of Christ, ever had any subsistence but in the Word.
- 1Dawascen. de fide orthodox. l. 3. cap. 7.
- 2Tho. par. 3. qu. 5. ar. 4. Gerh. suppl. 104.
The word [He] in the Scriptures alleged, signifieth not either Nature apart, but the person consisting of both Natures; as the Mediator was not (nor is not) God alone, nor man alone, but God-man; so he merited not as God alone or man alone, but as God-man: and as Christ merited the application of the good of Redemption, so God applieth it not for the sake of the Divine nature alone, nor the humane nature alone, but for the sake of God-man Mediator.