A DISCUSSION of that Great Point in DIVINITY, THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST; And the QUESTIONS about his RighteousnessActive,Passive:and the Imputation thereof.Being an ANSWER to a DIALOGUE ENTITLED The Meritorious Price of our 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.Rom. 3.26. To declare I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.London, Printed by A.M. for Geo. Calvert at the Sign of the half Moon, and Joseph Nevill at the Sign of the Plough in the new Buildings in Pauls Church-yard, 1653.A DISCUSSION of that Great Point in DIVINITY, THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST; And the QUESTIONS about his RighteousnesseActive,Passive:and the Imputation thereof.Being an ANSWER to a DIALOGUE INTITULED The Meritorious Price of our 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.Rom. 3.26. To declare I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.London, Printed by A.M. for Geo. Calvert at the Sign of the half Moon, and Joseph Nevill at the Sign of the Plough in the new Buildings in Pauls Church-yard, 1653.Title page of A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the…, London, 1653A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the…John Norton, 1653

The Vindication of Gal. 3.13.

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CHAP. XI. The Vindication of Gal. 3.13.

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Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, as it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs upon a tree.

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Dialogu. IN this Text the Apostle speaks of a twofold curse, 1. He speaks of the eternal curse in ver. 10.2. Of an outward temporary curse, in ver. 14. such as all men do suffer, who are hanged upon a tree; the Apostle brings in this latter curse in a Rhetorical manner only, saying thus, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law (namely, from the eternal curse at the very self-same time) when he was made (not that curse, but) a curse for us according to Deuter. 21.23.

Dialogu. IN this Text the Apostle speaks of a twofold curse, 1. He speaks of the eternall curse in ver. 10.2. Of an outward temporary curse, in ver. 14. such as all men do suffer, who are hanged upon a tree; the Apostle brings in this latter curse in a Rhetoricall manner only, saying thus, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law (namely, from the eternall curse at the very self-same time) when he was made (not that curse, but) a curse for us according to Deuter. 21.23.

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Answ. The Apostle ver. 13. according to the stream of Interpreters answers an Objection arising out of vers. 10. thus, If every one be cursed that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them, it followeth then that all are accursed, because no one continueth in all things

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