A89732:780
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The terms Mediator and Malefactor are to be distinguished as the whole and the part of the same office.
To be a Malefactor imputatively was an essential part, for the time, of the office of the Mediator.
To be a Malefactor imputatively was an essentiall part, for the time, of the office of the Mediatour.
The terms Active and Passive do not denote or distinguish two deaths, but are to be distinguished as adjuncts or affections of the same Person and Officer, as concerning one and the same death.
Dialogu. When I speak of the death of Christ as a Malefactor, then the Scribes and Pharisees must be considered as the wicked instruments thereof, yet this must be remembered also, that I do not mean that they by their torments did separate his soul from his body, in that sense they did not put him to death (himself only did separate his own soul from his body by the power of his Godhead) but they put him to death, because they inflicted the sores of death upon his body, they did that to him which they thought sufficient to put him to death: and men are often said to do that which they endeavour to do; as in the example of Abraham,