( 252 ) but a formalityat molt. 5. Gods knowing, was a foreknowing , (. Scripture fo calls it): not a knowing that a man thenwas,or was guilty, but that he would be,or that it was futurnm. Therefore man wasnot guilty :futarin is terminus dteninteens,as to exiftent, and To is pne cognition. I conclude therefore that man was not guilty from eternity, and therefore not capable ofpardon. 2. It is objeded, that at Chrifts death we were guilty, becaufe we were all guilty in "ire/am. I Reply ; When weexift, we are faid firft to be in Adam, and fo to be guilty in Adam , as weare the progeny of him. But properly, before we exift we were not guiol ty : He that was not in csidam, was not guilty in Adam : They that now live on earth,were not in Adam at Chrifts death : there- fore they were not guilty in esidam. The Minor is plain ; for,He. that w not, was not in Adam : But he that now lives on earth, d/5 not at Chrifts death : therefore he way not in Adam. To be in Adam, fuppofeth to be. Obj. In Gods account wewere inhim. nftv. Not fo : Gods account is according to truth : therefore he accounts not thofe in lAdam that are not. ob.). All wankinde finned in Adam: therefore theywere in Adam. Anfiv. Mankind is taken either for thehumane nature, or for each Individual per- fon. And finning in Adam, fignifieth either that they perfonally finned in Adam, at the time when he finned, or elfe that he then committed a fin which fhall begin tobe theirs, when they (hall exift.And fo I fay,that the humane nature did fin in Adam,and my perfon as loon as exiftent is guilty of Xdams fin and fo far may be laid to have finned in him ' but my perfon did not as a perfon reallyor reputatively fin in him before it did exift or was a perfon., obj. If our guilt orfin werenot then Reputatively in Being, how could it be laid onChrift, or Chrift bear ie An/v.', It was not fin it felf, or guilt in it fell', the fame withour individual guilt that Chrift bore. But he contraaed, as it were, a guilt by his own voluntary fponfion, which he did, not becaufe we then were guilty, but becaufe he foreknewwe would be guilty, and by that guilt liable to punifhment : and therefore to prevent our punifhment ( not our guilt) he offered that facrifice of himfelf on the Crofs,on confideration whereofour guilt,when it did exift, fhoulcl be done away: Not that it did then exift, or was thendone away. z. And it muff be , known that all:that 'then did txifi, were attually gpitty. 3 ,And,
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