"Chap. 1 .Secr.4 Looking ut.Jto fefm, BooidV 555 culp<e, the guilt ofGn as Gn, and this is all one with Gn, being th-e very eifence, foul, a-nd formal being ofGa; they call it a fundamental, or potential guilt; and there is re•ltW4 pei'l<f! rearvu perfon<e, reat~t> aE!:ualu, the guilt or obligation to punilhment, the atl:,ual guilt, or atl:ual obligation of the perfon who hat b thus finned to puniihment, and this guilt is a thing far different from fin it felfe, and is feperab!c from Gn: yea, and is removed from fin in our juftification. Now this was the fin, or guilt, which was layd on Chrifr, in'which fenfe the Apoftle fpeaks, who hu own 1 Pet. 2 . 24 • feife bare our jiru in hiJ own body on the tree; how bare our fi ns Ira. r 3 ,6, on the tree,but by his fufferings ?-And he httth la!d ~n him t he iniquity of us all ;--how layd on him, but by imputation?·-- And he hath made him fQ be fin f or us who k!;ew no (in; how made 2 Cor. f, :1 , fin for us? furely there was in Chrift no fundamental guilt; no, no, but he was made iin by imputation and law-account : he was our furety, and fo our fins were layd o~ him _in order to puniihment, as if now in the garden he had fa1d to hts Father, rhou h4lgiv en me a body, as I have tx/esn the debts, andjim ofall believers, in the world upon me ; Come .now, and arrejf me as the o~e!y paymafter; toe here I am to doandfuffer f or their ji11s whatfoever thou plea[eft , pfal. 40. 6, 7, 8. Heb. I o. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9· or as if he had Mid to his Father thus, I am the jinner 0 Father, I am t he Jurety, all my f riends wants, and all their debts, let them be laid on me; my lifef or tbeir life, my foul for their fouls, my glory f or their [.lory, my heaven for their heaven ; now this was nv fmall matter ; little do we know or confider' what is the weigpt, and guilt ofGn. And this was another ingredient in Chrifts cup. · 5.. The power and malice ofSatan; the devil had a full leave and licenfe, not as it was with rob, 'dowh:rt thou wilt, Satan, but J.tvehislife; no, no; he had a commiffio_n without any fuch refrriCl:ion or limitation; the whole power of darknetfe was let - loofe t\) u'fe all his violence, and to affliCt him as far as poffibly he could; and this our Saviour intimates, when he faith, that the J h prince of thiJ world cometh: now was it that the Word mull: be 0 • 14 ' )~. accornpli{hed, thou foalt bntife his heele ; the devil could go no Gen :;.t). higher, than tbe hede ofChrifr, but whatever he could do he was fure to do ; he had been nibl ing a great while a-t his heele; no fooner he was borne_, but he would have killed him, and after he Bbbbz Ml
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