A89732:765
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. V. Of the Dialogues distinction of Christs dying as a Mediator and as a Malefactor.
Dialogu. I Have already showed you that Christ dyed a twofold death: for he died both as a Malefactor and as a Mediator at one and the same time; as a Malefactor he died a passive death, but as a Mediator he died an active death, and the Scripture doth often speak of both these deaths, sometimes jointly and sometimes severally: when the Scripture doth mention his passive death, then it saith that he was put to death, killed and slain. But secondly, the Scripture doth sometime speak jointly of his passive death, and of his Mediatorly death together in one sentence, as in Rom. 8.13. and in Gal. 3.13. (which Scriptures I have opened at large in the first part,) Luke 22.19. compared with 1 Cor. 11.24. Luke 22.20. so Isa. 12. with Rom. 4.25. The Scripture doth sometime speak of his Mediatorial death only as Isa. 53.10. he gave his soul to be a trespass-offering for our sins, and he offered himself by his eternal spirit, Heb. 9.14. and he laid down his own life, Joh. 10.17, 18, and he sanctified himself, Joh. 17.19. therefore seeing the holy Scriptures do teach us to observe this distinction upon the death of Christ, it is necessary that all Gods people should take notice of it, and engrave it in their minds and memories.