14 T e Vfe f Faith in yúii ficatioñ in the Expiatory Sacrifice, when all their fins and iniquities were pardoned,and their perlons accepted withGod,the a hng of their Faith was limited unto the Impofition of all their fins - on the head of the Sacrifice by the high Prieft, Lev. 16. By his knowledge, that is Faith in him; (hall my righteous Servant juflifie many, for he fhall bear their iniquities, Ifa. 53. I 1. That alone which Faith refile&s in Chrift as unto the Juftification of finners, is his bearing their iniquities. Guilty convinced .finners look unto him by Faith, as thofe who were flung with fery Serpents did to the Brazen Serpent ; that is, as he was lifted up on the Crofs, yob. 3. 14, 15. So did he himfelf ex- Rrefs the nature and a&ings of Faith. in. our Juftification, om. 3. 24, 25. Being juflijed.freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in jefus Chrifl, whom God hath fit forth to he a Propitiation through .Faith in his Blood. As he is aPro- pitiation,. as he flied his Blood for us, as we have . Redem- ption thereby, he is the peculiar Obje& of our Faith, with refpe& unto our- Juftification. See to the fame purpofe, Rom.. 5. 9, Io. Ephef. 1. 7. Col. 1. 14. Ephef. 2. 13,, 14,, 15, 16. Rom., 8. 3, 4. He was made fin for us who knew no fin, that, we might be made the Righteoufinefs of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 2,r. That which we Peek after in Juftification is a Participation of the Righteoufnefs of God; to be made the Righteoufnefs of Cod, and that not in our elves but in another, that is in Chrift. Jefus. And that alone which is propofed unto our Faith as the means and caufe of it, is, his being made. fn for us, or a Sacrifice for fin, wherein all the Guilt: of our fins was laid on him; and he bare all our Iniquities. This therefore is its peculiar Obje& herein. And wherever in the Scripture we are dire&ed to.feek for the forgivenef of fins by the Blood of Chrift, receive the Atonement, to be juftified through the Faith of him as crucified, the Obje& of Faith in Juftification 4 limited anddetermined. But it may be pleaded in Exception unto the Teítimonies,, that
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