A89732:769
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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By it the Dialogue means, that the natural death ⟨p. 165⟩of Christ (for the spiritual death it denieth) is either Active, actuated by the Divine nature, yea, the joint concurrence of both natures, so he died as a Mediator, and this was real: or Passive, wherein the Jews and Romans inflicted upon him the sores of death, but did not put him to death though they thought they did, so he died as a Malefactor. This was not real, but only in the Jews account; Such is the mind of the distinction.
By it the Dialogue means, that the naturall death ⟨p. 165⟩of Christ (for the spirituall death it denieth) is either Active, actuated by the Divine nature, yea, the joint concurrence of both natures, so he died as a Mediatour, and this was reall: or Passive, wherein the Jews and Romans inflicted upon him the sores of death, but did not put him to death though they thought they did, so he died as a Malefactor. This was not real, but only in the Jews account; Such is the minde of the distinction.
Those Texts wherein Christ is said to be put to death, Luke 18.33. 1 Pet. 3.18. killed, Gal. 3.13. teach us, that Christ was passive in his death, but make no mention of the Dialogues twofold natural death, nor do they deny Christ to be active in that death wherein he was passive. They show plainly his blood was shed, and that by Jews, but not one of them affirmeth that Christ shed it himself.
Those Texts wherein Christ is said to be put to death, Luke 18.33.