2 34 Imputation, and the i`jture of it. ted, 2 Sam. 19. 19. He laid unto the King, Let not my Lord impute Iniquity unto me, (Yí771.3 ict+5 IA IN 21011+ -5ri the word uíèd in the expreffion of the Imputation of Righteoufnee. Gen. i 5. 6.) neither do thou remember what thy Servant did per - verfeely ; For the Servant cloth know that I have (%need: He was Guilty, and acknowledged his Guilt, but déprecates the Imputation of' it, in fuch a fentence concerning him, as his fin deferved. So Stephen deprecated the Imputation of fin unto them that flailed him, whereof they were really guilty, A. 7.6o. Lay not this fin to their charge; impute it not unto them. As on the other fide Zechariah the Son of jehojada, who died in the fame caufe, and the fame kind of death with Stephen, prayed that the fin of thofe which flew him might be charged on them, 2 Chron. 24. 22. Wherefore to impute fin, is to lay it unto the charge of any, and to deal with them according unto its defert. To impute that which is Good unto any, is to judge and acknowledge it fo to be theirs, and thereon to deal with them in whom it is, according unto its refpe& unto the Law of God. The Righteoufneleof the Righteous (hall be upon him. So Jacob provided that his Righteoufne fßß ould anfwer for him, Gen. 3o: 33. And we have an Inftance of it in Gods dealing' with men,. Pfal. i o6. 3 z. Then flood up .Phineas and executed /udgment,.. and it was imputed unto him for Righteoufnefe.. Not- withftanding it Teemed that he hadnot fufficient warrant for what he did, yet God that knew his heart, and what Gui- dance of his own fpirit he was under, approved his flcl ,sss Righteous,and gavehim a Reward teftifying that Approbation. Concerning this Tmputation it muff be obferved, that what- ever is our own antecedently thereunto, which is an A& of God thereon, can never be imputed unto us for any thing more or lets than what it is really in it felf. For this Impu- tation contifis of two parts, or two things concur thereunto. (i) A Judgment of the thing to be ours, to in us,, or to belong,
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