C x A P. S. 7uflif. through Intput: of Cb.Right. clearedfrom the N. T. 73 beavenr , there to reigne for ever , and there he begote eternal life and everlaf- tingbleftfednefs both to Himfèlf, and to His. How aliene this is from the who- le of the Apoftle'sdifcourfe, needs not be declared , feing there is not one word giving the leaft hint of the Apoflle's defrgne to be to declare how & what way Chrift obtained power and authority to fave : Yet He goeth on to tell us, That as Adam's fault made him guilty of death , whence it carne to pa ffe , that all mankind ,;that are procreat of him after that guilt , is obnoxious to death : Jo Chrifl by His Righteoufnefs purchafed to Himfelf eterna! life ; when- ce it cometh to paffe, that who ever are procreat of him , partake of this life. But He never once taketh notice, that Paul giveth for the ground of all man - kind's becoming guilty of death, their finning in him vers i2. even fuch , as had not finned after the fimilitude of Adam's tranfgreflion vers i .. yea , in every verfe this caufe is noted , or pointed at : & it being Notour of it Pelf, that ifall mankind did fin in Adam, Adam's fin mutt be imputed unto them; fo Chrift's Righteoufnefs mutt be imputed unto all His, inreference to their juftificatlbn, & that with a much more. Let us now fee what ¡An Goodwine excepteth peg, 142. &c. It it not here faitisHe) fetid, that by the Imputation of Adam's diJobedience, men arc made formally Sinners , but limply firmer: , that is , either obnoxious to death and con- demnation, or elfe finners by propagation , not Imputation. Anf. This is the fa- me upon the matter, with Bellarmin's anfwer de ju flif. lib. 2. cap. 9. & here we have adifinUionpropofed without any explication ,to wit, betwixt _lim- ply (inners, and formally (inners: And what can he meane by formally 'inners ? poflìbly he meaneth that , which otherwife is expre(fed by inherently finners . And if fo, though Adam's poflerity, fo foon as they come to have a being, have an univerfal corruption of Nature conveyed by propagation ; yet that is not it, which is properly faid to be Imputed : for that which is imputed , is the guilt of Adam's fin , whereby they become finners , that is guilty le- gally , and fo obnoxious to punishment, death &condemnation : & this is enough for us ; for as the poi erity of Adam have the fin of Adam fo imput- ed to them, that they become guilty and obnoxious to wrath ; fo Belce- vers have the Righteoufnefs of Chrift imputed unto them , and they there- upon are accounted legally righteous. (2.) Whileas he will not grant , that Adam's pofterity are finners by imputation , he joineth with the Socinians who turne thefe words vers 12. 4' w not in whom; but becaufe, or whereas, which the Ethiopick veifion loth betterfenfe, faying. Becaufe that fin it imputed unto all men, even unto them who know not what it that fin ; And the Arabick turne thus , feing all,have now finned : andthe Syriack word is Behi, or Bhi,which may as well be interpreted in whom , as becaufe. And in fe- veral other places, this prxpofition fo cot-lamed , as here in the Greek, hath this fame import; as Mark 2. 4. Lul< 5:25. & ít:22. Rom. 6:21. Phil. 4: io. 1. Thef. 3:7. But enough of this here,'feing that,matter is fufficient- ly cleared by the orthodox , writting again(} the Socinians; and we have alto fpoken of it againli the ariakers. CV.aA . ¡CL1 Againe faith He, Neither doth the A9poßle here oppofe unto, or compare the Obedience of Chri fi e with the difobedience of Adam , as one 4tI unto or with ano- then
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