A89732:760
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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1Behold the man! and if these things still seem less ⟨p. 163⟩to the author of the Dialogue, yet know they seemed great both to David that spake of them, and to Christ that felt them; Reproach hath broken my heart, Psa. 69.20. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels, my strength is dried up like a potsherd, Psa. 22.14, 15.
1Behold the man! and if these things still seem lesse ⟨p. 163⟩to the authour of the Dialogue, yet know they seemed great both to David that spake of them, and to Christ that felt them; Reproach hath broken my heart, Psa. 69.20. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels, my strength is dried up like a potsherd, Psa. 22.14, 15.
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Dialogu. Surely none of all these things did hasten his death before the two thieves, but the only true reason was, because he did actuate his own death as a mediatorial sacrifice of atonement (at the just hour appointed by his Father) by the joint concurrence of both his natures.