A89732:759
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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1He is a very negligent Reader of the History of the Passion, that observeth not many sufferings inflicted upon Christ by men more then were upon the thieves. His restless vexation the night before by their carrying of him first before Annas, Joh. 18. then to Caiaphas, ver. 24. where they spit in his face, and buffeted him, others smote him with the palms of their hands, Mat. 27.67. Again, they cover his face and buffet, and say unto him, Prophesy, Mar. 14.65. and thence they carry him to Pilate early in the morning, Mat. 27.1, 2. thence to Herod, Luk. 23.7. and Herod with his men of war set him at naught, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate, where the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Common Hall, and gathered unto him the whole Band of soldiers, and they stripped him, and put upon him a scarlet Robe, and when they had platted a Crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed themselves before him,2 saying, Hail, King of the Jews, and spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head, Mat. 27.27, 28, 29, 30. add hereunto their casting lots upon his vesture, reviling of him, wagging their heads at him, and mocking of him as well by the better as by the meaner sort, whilst he was hanging upon the Cross, and all this besides what was extraordinary in his scourging; you forget his sorrow unto death, mortal of it self in time, his agony in the garden, besides the full sense of the wrath of God upon the Cross, no wonder if all these exhausted the spirits of the Manhood.
1He is a very negligent Reader of the History of the Passion, that observeth not many sufferings inflicted upon Christ by men more then were upon the thieves. His restlesse vexation the night before by their carrying of him first before Annas,