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The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few…
The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perilous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begetting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perillous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begeting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.
London: printed by John Macock for Henry Cripps, 1654
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Justification in respect of the price, and the acceptation of the persons justified is equal; thus, The Person that suffered for all is one and the same; the sufficiency of an infinite Person suffering was requisite for the redemption of one, and in the suffering of an infinite Person, there was sufficiency for the redemption of all. The kind of punishment suffered for all was the same, Gods acceptation thereof was the same, Christ having suffered the punishment due in kind and degree to the greatest sinner; it cost Christ no more to pardon Paul than Timothy, it cost him as much to pardon Davids child, 2 Sam. 12.23. as to pardon Manasseh.
Justification in respect of the price, and the acceptation of the persons justified is equal; thus, The Person that suffered for all is one and the same; the sufficiency of an infinite Person suffering was requisite for the redemption of one, and in the suffering of an infinite Person, there was sufficiency for the redemption of all. The kinde of punishment suffered for all was the same, Gods acceptation thereof was the same, Christ having suffered the punishment due in kinde and degree to the greatest sinner; it cost Christ no more to pardon Paul than Timothy, it cost him as much to pardon Davids childe, 2 Sam. 12.23. as to pardon Manasseth.
The punishment for kind and degree due unto the greatest sinner being suffered by an infinite person, it was as much as if all the elect had suffered; an infinite person containeth eminently all persons; Christ therefore being in himself an infinite person, and being by Divine ordination a public Person in his suffering, he was as many persons as God willed him to stand for therein. Hence when the redemption money was brought, the rich must not give more, the poor must not give less, Exod. 30.15. in the Passover, and in the Supper of the Lord, the portion of all is equal, the distribution of Manna was equal,