A89732:776
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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The scope of the distinction is to make Christ the formal taker away of his own life.
The deduction from it; therefore neither Jews nor Romans put Christ to death: of both which before and in the answer immediately following.
The deduction from it; therefore neither Jews nor Romans put Christ to death: of both which before and in the answer immediatly following.
This distinctions twofold death is but one: for he died not a passive death as a Malefactor, according to the Dialogue, p. 97. and 100. It denieth the death of Christ as Mediator to be Passive, which can hardly escape a contradiction. It denieth Christ as he was Mediator to be a Malefactor, though to be imputatively a Malefactor was essential for the time unto his being a Mediator.
This distinctions twofold death is but one: for he died not a passive death as a Malefactor, according to the Dialogue, p. 97. and 100. It denyeth the death of Christ as Mediatour to be Passive, which can hardly escape a contradiction. It denieth Christ as he was Mediatour to be a Malefactor, though to be imputatively a Malefactor was essential for the time unto his being a Mediatour.