C it A P. 8. 7ailif. through Imput. of Ch. Right: cleared from the N.T. 75 king of many, is conflantly appropriated to the death & blood of Chrift. Anf. This that is attributed to the blood & death of Chrift elfewhere , to trot , our ju(tification, sheweth, that the death of Chrift is not underftood excluf- vely ; for by His death , excluq y confidered , we cannot -be made Righ- teous ; for the Imputation of another's fuffering , though it may exeem from death & fuffering ; yet it cannotconftitute Righteous , in reference to the commanding Law. ( 2. ) The death of Chrift mull not be looked on , as one at of obedience ; but as including all His foregoing as of obedience, belonging to His Stare of humiliation whereof His death was the crowning piece ; & fo as including as His whole fuffering ; fo His whole obedience to the Law , under which he was made : for He is fail to have been obedient unto death , even unto the death of the crofs Phil. 2: 8. not that the death of the crois was all His obedience , as it was not the whole Rate of His humiliation , but the terminating remarkable ad thereof; as it was not all His fuffering , His whole life being a life of fuffering: ( 3.) if this obedience be under(lood of this one ad ofobedience in His dying , & jullification be looked upon , as the effedof this only, what shall beco- me of His Soul-fufferings, while He was in an agonie in the garden ? But if the at of obedience in His death , include thefe , why not His whole Rate of humiliation ? And if it include all this , why not alto His obedien- ce to the Law , feing His being made under the Law,belongeth to His flare of humiliation , as the Apoftle tels us Gal. 4: 4. He excepteth furder, laying , Stippofe , that by the obedience of Chrifl, me should here underfland , His active obedience to the Moral Law yet it will not hence follow , that men muff be juflifed , or made Righteous by it , in frch a way of imputation. Anf. If by Christ's obedience to the Moral Law , we be made Righteous as the pofterity of Adam were made finners by the dif- obedience of Adam , that obedience of Chrift muff neceifarily be imputed to us , as Adam's difobedience was imputed to his pofterity : for there is no other way imaginable. Let us hear his reafon to the conarary. For certaine it is (faid he) that that juflification or Righteous- making, where- of the Apofile fpeaketh vers 119. is the fame with that , which He had fpoI en of v. 16,17,1 S. Now that Righteou fnefs vers 17. is def cribed vers 16. to be the gift (i.e. the forgivenefs)ofmany offences i.e. of all the offences ,whereof a man either doth, or shall fland guilty of before God ,unto juti ficatson : and evident it it , that that Righteou(nefs dn. cannot ftand in the Imputation of a fulfilling of the Law, Anf (r.) Though making Righteous and juflification be infeparable ; yet they are not formally one & the fame; but Righteous- making (to wit by Imputa- tion ) is antecedent unto ju[lification , & the ground thereof, as becoming finners is not formally to be condemiqed, but is prior to it, & the ground thereof. (2.) That flee gift mentioned vers 16. is not free forgivenefs, but is that, which is oppofite to judgment, or guilt, or reams, tending to con- demnation; & fo is the fame with that which is called the Grace of God, ¿i the gift by Grace vers 15. and the gift of RighteoufneJs vers t i. which is in order to lu(tification & free pardon. As therefore the xpt"Fsx, guilt is not the fame with xaníxp z condemnation; but tendech thereunto ; fo neither R2 isthe
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