2 3 6 Imputation, and the Nature of it. it had been our own , without any fuch Imputation. It is therefore a manife,fl mi/lahe of their own which force make the Ground of a Charge on the Doctrine of Imputa- tion. For they fay, if our fins were imputed unto Chrilf, then mull he be efleemed to have done what we have done amiJs and fo be the greaten Fnner that ever was ; and on the other fide, if his Righteoüfnefs be imputed unto us, then are we of eemed to have done what he did, and fo to Aland in no need of the pardon of (in. But this is contrary unto the nature of Imputation, which proceeds on no fuch Judgment, but on the contrary, that we our felves have done nothing of what is imputed unto us ; nor Chrift any thing of what was im- puted unto him. To declare more diftinfily the nature of this Imputation, I (hall confider the feveral kinds of it, or xather the feveral grounds whence it proceeds. For this Imputation unto us, of what is nöt our own antecedent unto that Imputation, tnay be either, (1) Ex juflitia, or () Ex voluntaria #ionfione, of° (3) Ex injuria, or (q.) Exgratia; all which (hall be exem- plified. I do not place them thus diflin &tly, as if they might not foìne of them concur in the fame Imputation; which I (hall manifeft that they do. But I (hall refer the feveral kinds of Imputation, unto that which is the next caufe of every one. I. Things that are not our own originally, perfonally, in- herently, may yet be imputed unto us ex juflitia, by the Rule of Righteoufnefs. And this may be done upon a double Relation unto thofe whole they are ; (r) Foederal, (2) Na- tural. (r) Things done by one may be imputed unto others, propter relationem firderalem, becaufe of a Covenant Relation between them. So the fin of Adam was, and is imputed un- to all his Pofterity, as we fhall afterwards more fully declare. And the Ground hereof is, that we flood all in the fame Covenant with him, who was our Head and Reprefentative therein.
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