A89732:84
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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In the execution of the sentence of death upon a malefactor;1 the separation of the soul from the body is of the essence of the punishment; the gradual decay of the senses, impotency of spirit, loss of friends, are accidental parts of punishment or penal adjuncts, arising not from the mere separation of the soul and body,2 but from the disposition of the patient. In case of execution of the sentence of imprisonment upon a debtor; Imprisonment is of the essence of the punishment, but duration in the prison is from the disposition of the debtor, viz. his insufficiency to pay the debt.
In the execution of the sentence of death upon a malefactor;1 the separation of the soul from the body is of the essence of the punishment; the gradual decay of the senses, impotency of spirit, losse of friends, are accidental parts of punishment or penal adjuncts, arising not from the meer separation of the soul and body,2 but from the disposition of the patient. In case of execution of the sentence of imprisonment upon a debtor; Imprisonment is of the essence of the punishment, but duration in the prison is from the disposition of the debtor, viz. his insufficiency to pay the debt.
- 1Mors Per se Aeterna.
- 2Polan. Carcer debiti pars nulla est. Parker de Descen. l. 3. num. 91.
The essential punishment of the curse, is the total temporal privation of all the sense of the good of the promise, called by some, The pain of loss; and the inflicting of the positive evil flowing from the curse, considered absolutely in it self, without any respect to the disposition of the patient,