A89732:85
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 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, ⟨p. 8⟩called The pain of sense: This essential punishment was that and only that which Christ suffered.
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 losse; 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, ⟨p. 8⟩called The pain of sense: This essential punishment was that and only that which Christ suffered.
1The death which Christ died was in nature and proportion the same which was due unto the Elect for their sin according to justice.
- 1Medull. l. 1. c. 22. th. 6.
The accidental part of the punishment of the curse, is all the rest of the penal evil thereof, and befalls the reprobate, not from the curse simply, but from the disposition of the patient under that curse. Of these accidental parts of punishment (which if you please may well pass under the name of penal adjuncts) are final and total separation from God; final death in sin, final and total despair, duration of punishment for ever, the place of punishment, &c.