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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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The Priest that offered this Sacrifice was not the Divine nature alone, but the Person of Christ consisting of both natures with the needless repetition of which, it is full time to cease troubling the Reader any further.
The Priest that offered this Sacrifice was not the Divine nature alone, but the Person of Christ consisting of both natures with the needlesse repetition of which, it is full time to cease troubling the Reader any further.
So to attribute the Mediatorly obedience of his death unto the divine nature, as to exclude the humane ⟨p. 153⟩nature from its influence thereunto, is not only to derogate from the humane nature, but indeed not to attribute such mediatorly obedience unto Christ, for Christ is a person consisting of both Natures.
Christs shedding of his blood in such a large manner as we read in the Scripture, is a truth worthy of all attention and acknowledgement, but understood in the sense of the Dialogue for the shedding of his material blood only, it is comparatively but a small part of his obedience: for Christ suffered not only a natural death, Job. 19.30. but also a spiritual death, Mat. 26.46. Heb. 2.9. not only a bodily but also a spiritual death, he shed his blood together with the sense of the wrath of God, here his death is not called a death simply, but a suffering, wherein the iniquities of us all gathered together as in an heap were laid upon him, Isa. 53.6. and a curse; but this is already largely spoken to.