A89732:792
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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After all this, give me leave again to mind the Reader, that though this untruth were true, yet it is impertinent to the question; for what though the ⟨p. 170⟩Jews did not put Christ to a natural death? what though Christ shed his own blood? what though he were his own Executioner, yea, killed himself? which last though the Dialogue in words somewhere rejects, yet in consequence asserts (at the writing of which my pen trembleth) doth it therefore follow that God did not inflict upon him his penal wrath?
After all this, give me leave again to minde the Reader, that though this untruth were true, yet it is impertinent to the question; for what though the ⟨p. 170⟩Jews did not put Christ to a natural death? what though Christ shed his own bloud? what though he were his own Executioner, yea, killed himself? which last though the Dialogue in words somewhere rejects, yet in consequence asserts (at the writing of which my pen trembleth) doth it therefore follow that God did not inflict upon him his paenall wrath?
Dialogu. He laid down his life by the same power by which he raised it up again, Joh. 10.17, 18.
Answ. The power was the same, but the manner of putting it forth was not the same: In laying down his life Christ acted as a voluntary and solitary cause, that is, by way of consent and alone; but in taking up his life again, he acted as an efficient social cause, the Father and the holy Ghost cooperating with him.