A89732:744
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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CHAP. IV. Whether the Jews and Romans put Christ to death.
CHAP. IV. Whether the Iews and Romans put Christ to death.
Dialogu. Neither did he die a passive death by the power of the Roman soldiers, as the Jews thought, and as the Papists and other carnal Protestants do think: All the men and devils in the world could not put him to death by their power, I mean, they could not separate his soul from his body, till himself pleased to do it by his own Priestly power, Joh. 10.17, 18. his soul was not separated from his body by the sense of those pains which the Roman soldiers inflicted upon him, as the souls of the two thieves were that were crucified with him, for Christ died not sooner nor later then the very punctual hour in which God had appointed him to make his oblation.
Dialogu. NEither did he die a passive death by the power of the Roman souldiers, as the Iews thought, and as the Papists and other carnal Protestants do think: All the men and devils in the world could not put him to death by their power, I mean, they could not separate his soul from his body, till himself pleased to do it by his own Priestly power, Joh. 10.17, 18. his soul was not separated from his body by the sense of those pains which the Romane souldiers inflisted upon him, as the souls of the two theeves were that were crucified with him, for Christ died not sooner nor later then the very punctual hour in which God had appointed him to make his oblation.