A89732:723
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 death or shedding of the blood of Christ in Scripture is often put for the whole satisfactory obedience which he performed in the state of his humiliation, Rom. 3.25. Eph. 1.7. Col. 1.20. because it was the completing and consummation of all; or synecdochically taking a part for the whole, namely, the visible part of his sufferings for both visible and invisible,1 like as in the relating the moral acts of his obedience, the external part is oftentimes only mentioned, the internal understood; and in setting down the works of the Creation, the visible creatures are named, the invisible included.
The death or shedding of the bloud of Christ in Scripture is often put for the whole satisfactory obedience which he performed in the state of his humiliation, Rom. 3.25. Eph. 1.7. Col. 1.20. because it was the compleating and consummation of all; or synechdochically taking a part for the whole, namely, the visible part of his sufferings for both visible and invisible,1 like as in the relating the moral acts of his obedience, the external part is oftentimes only mentioned, the internal understood; and in setting down the works of the Creation, the visible creatures are named, the invisible included.
- 1Med. lib. 1. c. 22. th. 5. Polan. Pis. 2 Pet. 2.4.