ISt Mr. Eaxter s Opinion about Imput. examined, C-1 x r. o i)ightcoulnefs is imputed to us , in the famefence, as our fins are faid to be impu- ed to Him. And to this I alto heartily acquiefce ; & hence iuferre. That as Chrift was made fin by that Imputation , fo we are made righteous by ver- tue of this Imputation : as our fins were laid on Him ( as the fins of the peo- ple were laid on the fcape goat , the type) fo His Righteoufnefsis put on us, as He came in our Law-place fo we come in His : As our fins imputed to Him were the immediat procuring caufe of His firipes & punifhment or futfering ; fo His Righreoufnefs imputed to us is the Immediat procuring caufe of our juftification &c. As Chritl was repute legally or juridically, though not inherently , a (inner , becaufe of this Imputation of our fins to I-Iirn , & therefore dealt with, punifhed & chaftened , as if He had been a real firmer , becaufe He flood in our Law- place; fò His Righteoufnefs being imputed to us , we are repute legally & juridically , though not inherently, Righteous , & thereupon are dealt with , juflified & accepted &c. as if we head been really Righreous , becaufe now handing in His Law- place. So that if Mr. Baxter will Rand to this , that ordinarily protefiants agree unto, I am fuilç' Satisfied : & had he done fo from the beginning , many of his dif- couiifes would have been forborne : And whether he , or others who owne what protefiants agree tinto , be CO be reckoned among the felfconceited wranglers, as he fpeaketh in the followingpage, indifferent men may judge: & I conceive, if he would yet (land to this , he fhould alter that , which he gave us , in the fore-mentioned words , as the only healing middle way; For that middle way ( as he calleth it ) giveth us a far other steme , than can be drawn out of this, wherein protefiants are commonly agreed as is ob- vious. He tels us Chap. x. ( where he cometh to hate the queflion ) pag. 51. that we muff diflinguifh of Imputation , & giveth us fix fenfes thereof; five whe- reof are fuch , as I know not , if even Antinomians did owne them. They are thefe. I. To repute usperfonally to have been the Agents of Chrifi'd'Atts, the Subjettsof His Habites c35 paffion, in a phyfical fenfe. I know not, who in their wits would atlirme this : & tome , it is not a fit way to end , or clear con - trove.rfies , to raife fo much duff needlefly , & imagine fenfes out of our owne heads, as if they were owned & maintained, by fome, what is the 2? Or to repute the fame formal relation of kighteoujnefs which was in Chri ji's Per - fon, to be in ours, as the Subjett. But this is only a confequent of the foregoing 3. ( faith he) or to repute u, to have been the very Subje/ts of Chriß's Habites d? paffion, ¿o' the Agents of His Ails , in a Political , or Moral fence ( & not a phy- fical) as a man payeth a debt by a Servant, or attornay, ordelegate. If this be the only meaning of his Political & Moral fenfe , I fuppofe no man will owne it either : for no man will fay , That Chrift was our Servant , Attorn ay, or Delegate The 4. is but a confequent of this ; and con fequently (faith hey to repute a double formal f ighteou1ne(; to refult from the faid habites, airs e paffins, one to Chief?, as the Natural Subjeti ¢? Agent; another to us , ar the Moral, Political or reputed Subjett d9' agent (& Jo His formal itigh_teou fnefe not to be im- puted to us in it fe/f, as ours , but another to refult from the fame matter. This is too Philofopiaical for me to ow ne , or follow. The g, is, or elfe that we are reputed
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