C x A P. I T. Objecçions from Scripture Anftvered, 145 for righteoufnefs , it shall farad them in no fitead to jufii fication. For it is requi- red, as the meane , whereby the Sinner is married unto Chritl, & partakerh of His Righteoufnefs , in order to jufhfication; and is as the legal produ- &fion of the righteoufnefs of the Surety , in face of court , as the ground of abfolution to he pleaded & flood unto. The reafon he here addeth is of no force , becaufe faith is affigned of God to this end & purpofe , as the Gofpel cicareth; 8z only to this end, that fo the Mediator alone may weare the Crown ; & beare the weight of liimiers; & nothingin us , or from us may share with Him , in that glory. It is falte (3) to fay , or fuppofe (as his fol- lowing words intimate) Thatfaith in the New Covenant hath the fame place, force e efficacy , which the righteoufnefs of the law had , in the old Cove- nant : For then Faith should be Meritoriousex patto, & should give ground of glorying before men .It is (q.)falle to fay, That if faith hash not this place,force & efficacy in the Néw Covenant, the command for beleeving, & beleeving it felf shall be vaine.. Seing it hath another ufe defigned to it of God ; and it is requi- red for another end , as is Paid, according to the gracious pleafure & purpofe of God. Lajily Chap. 8. pag. 93. &c. he argueth from Gal. 3: 12, thus, If the Scrip- tures do not only no where eftablish , but in any place abfolutely deny a ptf bility of the tranflation or removing of the Rjghteoufnefi ofCbrift from one perfon to another then there is no Imputation of Chrift's R teoufnefs. But the former is emphatical- ly truefrom this place. Ergo , &c. .An f. This , upon the matter , is but what Socinur faid lib. 3. cap.3.vi. That one mans deed can no more be the deed of another , than one mans death, or Paine can be the death or paine ofano- ther : & that in deeds of thelaw , the deed it felf is not limply called for, but the proper deed of every one, who is under the law : &- that nothing can be more ridiculous, than to lay that one mans righteoufnefs can be' the righteoufnefs ofanother, who is unrighteous in himfelf: & that it is againft common fenfe , to fay, that one may obey for another. But howbeit we eafily grant, there neither is , nor can be any phvfical tranflation or remo- ving of Righteoufnefs from one to another : yet to deny all legal tranflation, into deny all Suretiship &cautionry; yea and all Satisfetton : & therefore the Socinians , who fee the force of this confequence , do peremptorily de- ny, that Chritf made any Satisfaaion to luflice, or payed the debt of the cho- fen ones, as their Surety & loch , as deny this legal tranflation of Chrifi's Righteoufnefs, would do well to confider, if they do not hereby weaken the truth , concerning Chriti's Satisfa &ion, & His dying in the Room, place & Stead ofthe Elea. As for the thing it fell, every one , that knoweth' what a Surety is, knoweth that his payment of the debt is by law reckoned on the (core of the principal debtor, & fo transferred upon him , as he is no mare liable to the charge of the Creditor, or to the execution of the law a- gainft him for non - payment , than if he himfelf had laid down the full Summe. He would prove, what he alleigeth, thus, This Scripture doth not barely and fimply deny a pot bility of tranflationof the Righteoufnefs of the law from one perfon to another but denied.; it emphatically..4nf. Howbeit it be a truth, that no meer-
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