A89732:748
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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Answ. The Dialogue unable to prove the mere natural death of Christ to be meritorious, that is, to be a sufficient price of our Redemption from the mere eminency of the person that died; what it cannot do by argument it attempts by amazement, beguiling the less attentive Reader into a credulity of the conclusion not by any reason alleged, but by asserting some wonders concerning his natural death, and first that his death was active only, i.e. he separated his soul from his body, shed his own blood, actuated his own death, but the Jews and Romans put him not to death.
Answ. The Dialogue unable to prove the meer naturall death of Christ to be meritorious, that is, to be a sufficient price of our Redemption from the meer eminency of the person that died; what it cannot do by argument it attempts by amazement, beguiling the lesse attentive Reader into a credulity of the conclusion not by any reason alledged, but by asserting some wonders concerning his natural death, and first that his death was active only, i.e. he separated his soul from his body, shed his own bloud, actuated his own death, but the Jews and Romans put him not to death.
Suppose it were true that men did not instrumentally inflict upon Christ a natural death, and that they killed him not, which yet is against the express letter of the Scripture, Act. 2.23. it doth not therefore follow God did not inflict upon him a spiritual death.
Suppose it were true that men did not instrumentally inflict upon Christ a naturall death, and that they kil'd him not, which yet is against the expresse letter of the Scripture, Act. 2.23. it doth not therefore follow God did not inflict upon him a spirituall death.