A89732:811
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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Dialogu. The cleansing virtue of his blood lies in his own Mediatorial shedding of it, for though he did not break his own body, and pour out his own blood with nails and spears, as the Roman soldiers did, yet he brake his own body in pieces by separating his own soul from his body by the power of the Divine nature: and then he did actually shed his own blood when he did pour out his own soul to death, Isa. 53.12. as a Mediatorial sacrifice of Atonement for the procuring of his Fathers Atonement for our full Redemption, Justification and Adoption, and in this sense only the blood of Christ doth purge us, Tit. 2.14. and cleanse us 1 Joh. 1.7. and wash us from our sins, Rev. 1.
Dialogu. The cleansing vertue of his bloud lies in his own Mediatorial shedding of it, for though he did not break his own body, and powr out his own bloud with nails and spears, as the Roman souldiers did, yet he brake his own body in peeces by separating his own soul from his body by the power of the Divine nature: and then he did actually shed his own bloud when he did pour out his own soul to death, Isa. 53.12. as a Mediatorial sacrifice of Atonement for the procuring of his Fathers Atonement for our full Redemption, Iustification and Adoption, and in this sense only the bloud of Christ doth purge us, Tit. 2.14. and cleanse us 1 Joh. 1.7. and wash us from our sins, Rev. 1.
Answ. Christ shed his blood voluntarily, that is, he consented obediently thereunto, but he shed it not formally as the next and formal cause thereof; so to say is in effect to affirm that he killed himself, and that