322 The Life of Faith. diente and perfeii bolintp, and his fati+faftion, ¡ fo imputed to w, at the pro?rittaries, as ifwe our felves had drne it, and ftffered it ; not by an after donation in the eft-ells, but by this ftnii im- tutatiors in it fe!'. Contr. The contrary Truth is at large opened before, and in gay csnfe¡ea. Chrifth fa+ sfadion, and the merit of his whole ob_dience, is as ttllcdual for our pardon, julttfication and faivation, as if Believers ih mfclves had perfotmcd it ; and it is imputed to them, m that it was done for their fakes, and futfeed in their head, and the fruits of it by a free Covenant or donation given thorn. But o. God is not miliaken, to judge that we obeyed or Effered when we did not. 2. Cod is no lyar, to fay, we did it, when he knowtth that we did it not. 3. it we were not the atiors andfeferers, it is not pfible that we thonki be made the natural fubjee s of the Accidents of anothers body, by any putation, eflimatiori or mil-- judging whatfuevers no nor by any donation neither. It is a contradiction, and there- f re an impollibility that the fame individual Ac7ions andPaf ins, ofwhich Chains humane nature was the agent and fisb- }tt`,} lbmany hundred years ago, and have thernfelves now no tx,tlence, thouid in themfelves, I fay, in thenfelves, be made yours now, and you be the fubjed of the fame accidents. 4 Therefore they can no otherwife be given to us, but r. By a true elim;rtion of the reafons why Citrift underwent them, viz. for our fakes as aforefaid. a. And by a donationof the effects or fruits ofthem,viz.pardoning, and juffifying, and Paving us by them (on the terms chofen by the Donor himfclf, and put into his Tehament or Covenant) as certainly (but not in the fame manner) as if we had done and fuffercd them our haves. 5. If Chrtft had fuffered in our porfon rcputatively in all refpects, his fuff.rings would not have redeemed us : Be- caufe we are finite worms, and our fuffcring for fo Chore a time, would nothave been accepted inflead of Hell fufferings. But the perfon ofthe Mediator made them valuable. 6. God never made any Each Covenant with us[that he will juflifie us, and Life us ¡tali as he would have done, if we had our felves perfectly obeyed and fatis&ed.] They-thät. take on them to thew Path a Prntkife, mütf fce that no wife man examine it. 7. God
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