23-8 Imputation and the Nature of it pafrage of the Apofrle unto Philemon , in the behalf of Onetimus ; ver. 18. If he have wronged the , or oweth thee ought, IUD/ ál.Tb;A(, impute it unto me, put it on my account. He fìippofeth that Philemon might have a double Affion againfr One(imus. (1 ) Injuriarum,of wrongs ; is <Pi y ñd fxnv , if he bath dealt unjufily with the or by the, if he hath fo wronged the as to render himfelf obnoxious unto punifh- ment ; (2 ) Damni, or of lofs ; >, 8peiXci, if he oweth thee ought, be a debtor unto the, which made him liable to pay- ment or retritution. In this frate the Apoftle interpofeth himfelf by a voluntary fponlion, to undertake for Onermm.. I Paul have written it with my own hand á11 áRbri u, I Paul will anfwer for the whole. And this he did by the Tranfcription of both the debts of One(imus unto himfelf; For the crime was of that nature as might be taken away by compurgation, being not Capital. And the Imputation of them unto him, was made juft by his voluntary undertaking of them. Ac- count me faith he, the Perjon that hath done thefe things ; and I will make fatisfa&ion, fo that nothing be charged on Onetime. So judah voluntarily undertook unto Jacob, for the fafety of Benjamin, and obliged himfelf unto perpetual Guilt in cafe of failure ; Gen. 43. 9. I will be furety for him, of my hand fh. alt thou require him, if I bring him not unto the , and fit him before thee , =Inv? 1--) 15 'morn I will (in , or be a (inner before thee always ; be guilty and as we fay, bear` the blame. So he expreffeth himfelf again unto jofeph, Chap. .q.q.. 32. It feems this is the nature and office of a Surety; what he undertaI eth for, is juftly to be required at his hand, as if he had been originally and perfonally concerned in it. And this voluntary f onion was one ground of the Im- putation of our fin unto Chrift. He took on him the perron of the whole Church that had finned, to anfwer for what they had done againft God and the Law. Hence that Im- putation was fendamentaliter ex compac o, ex voluntaria #on- tone,
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