The Life of Faith. 3 t it cloth ro deem a captive, or purchafc pardon for a traitor, doth give +i . money and merit in it felt to the Prince, and not to the Captiveor Traitor himfelf. (He never law it, nor ever had propriety in the thing it fell;) But the deliverance is the Pri- fners, and not the Princes ; and therefore it is given to the Prifoner, st t® the lilts, though riot in it fell; in that it was given for him. And becaufc Chrifi fuffered what we fhould have fuffered (as to the value) to lave us from fuflering, and our fins were caufc of our guilt of pstnifhmcnt, and fo the remote caufe of the Cuff in s ! hritt (hisown fponfion bring the nearer eaufe t he r e fore it may be laid truly that Chrift did not only ' . fá Lifer for our benefit, but inour (lead or place; and in a larger,",;::. . and let's firiá and proper fenfe, that he fuffered in the perfon ofa frntoer, and as one to whom our fins were inoputed; mean- ing no more but that he fuf eredas one that by his own con- fcnt undertook to fuffcr for the perlons of finners, and that as fuch anundertaker only he fuffered ; and that thus our fies were imputed to him (not in sbemfelves, as if he were in Law fenfe the committer of them, or pollutedby them, or by Go effeemed fo to have been, but) as to the (Pas, that is, br'rfu .- fering ; in that they were the occafon, and the remoteor f- fumed eaufe ofhis fuflerings ; as his ltigbteoufnefs is impn to us, as the meritorious eaufe ofour Pardon and MifiCation. But he couldnot be fail no not in fo large a Cede as this, to have obeyed inour Read (confidcring it as obedience or boli. neß, but onlyas merit) becaufc he did it not that we might not obey, but that we might not fuffcr for difobeying. More of this will follow in the next Chapter. Dire6. q. Underhand well what guilt it is that Chriff dotb remit in our Juflification ; not the guilt of the fall, nor of the - fault in it filf, but tie guilt ofpuniihment ; and ofthefault onlyfe far as it is she taufe at wrathandpunifhment. s. Theguilt offall, is in the reality or truth of this charge.; that fueb a fail we did or entitled t fo far it is but Pbyfca: t+ cenudered, and would not come into legal contidera'ior,,wete it not for the following relationof it. a. The guilt of fault, featus calm is the reality of this charge(or the foundation of it in us) that we are the corn, millers
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