z 3(t,(tif, thratfgh Itnput. of Ch.Rigbt. cleared from the N.T. C H A p. $. teous perfon , or be dealt with as a Righteous perfon , He muft fiat have a Righteoufnefs imputed to him, and beftowed upon him : for how can God, whole judgement is according to truth , look upon a perfon as Righteous, and conferre privileges upon him , due only to fuch as are Righteous,who is not Righteous indeed ? Muft He not firft beftow a Righteoufnefs upon him , & reckona Righteoufnefs upon his Score, to the end He may be juft and Righteous , when He is the juftifier of him that beleeveth ? Laflly He laid. Here it neither peer nor peep of the !earl ground or reason to per- ceive , that by Righteoufnefs in this Scripture , should be meant the Righte- oufnefs ofChrifl. Anf. It is enough that the Text faith , Righteoufnefs it imputed!: for the man here fpoken of, hath not a Righteoufnefs of his own , as the Apoftle bath proved in the preceeding Chapters , & doth here take for granted : And therefore this Imputed Righteonfnefs mutt be the Righ- teoufnefs of another; and it muft be fuch a Righteoufnefs of anotherascart found free Remiffionof Sins. And whole Righteoufnefs elfe can this be, if it be not Chrift's ? Is there any third competitour here imaginable? muft it not be the Righteoufnefs of Him, whom faith goeth out unto & laith hold on , in or,ter to juftification ? Muff it not be His Righteoufnefs , who was the Mediator who laid down the price of Redemption , & was a propitiation , as He told us in the preceeding Chapter ? Some men , in al- leiging a difference , betwixt a Righteoufnefs imputed to us Sinners , and the Righteoufnefs of Chrift as if there could be any other Righteoufnefs imputable to us, except the Surety- righteoufnefs of Chrift ; as they ex- prefly in this joine with Socinians ( See Nike! devera R,elig. lib. 5. cap. 2r. p. 565. ) & with Papifis & Arminian: ; fo they declare themfelves utter ftrangers to the Gofpel; yea greater ftrangers, than thofe were , againft whom the Apoftle wrote, who took it for granted , that if any RighteouG nefs from without , or that was not by any thing, which we do, were im- puted , it behoved to be the Righteoufnefs of the Mediator : And this , we may conceive , is the reafon , why the Apoftle doth not fay , in fo many exprefs words , that it was the Righteoufnefs of Chrfft ; for who could ha- ve thought of another ? Fourthly Rom. 5: 19. a place , with its whole contexture pregnant for our purpofe : for the Apoftle is not onely here confirming, but alfo illustrating this whole matter, fcotn the Imputation of Adam's, Sin unto his pofterity ; & after many various and emphatick expreflîons, ufed there -anent from vers iz. and forward, he faith here vers a 9. for as by one mans disobedien- ce , many were made Sinners; fo by the obedience of one shall many be made righ- teous. Socinur de Servæt. lib. 4. cap. 6. is fo bold as to tell us , That he f ippofeth, there is nothing written in the Scriptures, that bath given us agreater occafion of erring, than that comparifon betwixt Adam dT Chrif, which Paul made LT did profecute at length here. And he would cleare to us the com- parifon thus , That as by Adam's Sin dT difobedience , it carne to pale , that all men were condemned and died ; fo by Chrift's rightecu fnefs and obedience it came to pa ye that they wero abfólvod and did live : for Chrifl by His omen R, ghteou fnefr and Obedience, by vertue of the decree of God , did penetrate the hea-
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