Imputation and the Nature of it. 237- therein. The corruption and Depravation of nature which we derive from Adam is imputed unto us, with the frfl kind of Imputation, namely, of that which is ours antecedently unto that Imputation. But his anal ('n is imputed unto us, . as that which becomes ours by that Imputation, which before it was not. Hence faith Bellarmine himfelf; Peccatiun Adami ita pofleris omnibus imputatur, ac (l omnes idem peccatum patra- viffent. De Amif Grat. lib. 4. cap. 1o. The fin of Adam is fo imputed unto all his Pof erity, as if they had all committed the fame fin. And he gives us herein the true nature of Imputa- tion, which he fiercely difputes againff in his Books of yurfi- féatìon. For the Imputation of that fin unto us, as if we had committed it, which he acknowledgeth, includes both a Tranfcription of that fin unto us, and a dealing with us, as if ` we had committed it; which is the Do &rine of the Apoftle Rom. 5. 2. There is an imputation of fin unto others, ex juflitia proper Relationem naturalem, on the account of a natural Relation between them, and thofe who had actually con - tra&ed the Guilt of it. But this is fo only with refpe& unto fome outward Temporary effè fs of it. So God fpeaks con- cerning the Children of the Rebellious Ifraelites in the W ih dernee. Tour Children fhall wander in the Wildern f Forty years, and bear your Whoredoms, Numb. 14. 33. Your fin {hall` be fo far imputed unto your Children, becaufe of their _Rela- tion unto you, and your Interefl in them, as that they [hall Puffer for them in an aflli &ive condition in the Wildernefs. And this was juft, becaufe of the Relation between them as the fameprocedure of Divine Juftice is frequently decla- red in other places of the Scripture. So where there is a due foundation of it, Imputation is an A& of Jùftice. 2. Imputation may juftly enfue, ex voluntaria f on(,>'one. ; . when one freely and willingly undertakes to anfkvr for. another. An iiluftrious ínftance hereof we have in. that
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