46 C HAP. VIII. imputation of the fins of the Church unto Cbrift. Grounds of it. The ACature of his Sure- yfhip. Caufes of the New Covenant. Chrili and the Church one myflical Perfon ; Con - fequents thereof. Hofè who believe the Imputation of the Righteoufnej of Chrift unto Believers, for the Juftification of Life, do alto unanimoufly profefs, that the fins of all Believers were imputed unto Ch. riff. And this they do on many Teftimonies of the Scripture dire &ly witneffing thereunto, fome where- of (hall be pleaded and vindicated afterwards. At prefent we are only on the confederation of the general notion of thefe things, and the Declaration of the nature of what (hall be proved afterwards. And in the firt place we (hall enquire iilto the foundation of this Difpenfation of God, and the Equity of it, or the Grounds whereinto it is refolved, with- out an underftanding whereof, the thing it felf cannot be well apprehended. The principal Foundation hereof is, that Chrifi and the Church, in this Defign, were one myflical Perfon, which ftate they do a&ua1ly coalefee in, through the uniting Efficacy of the Holy Spirit. He is the Head, and Believers are the mem- bers of that one Perfon, as the Apofile declares, z Cor. 12. 12, t 3. Hence as what he did is imputed unto them, as if done by them, fo what they deferved on the Account of fin was charged upon him. So is it expreffed by a Learned Pre- late; Nofiram caufam fuflinebat, qui noflram fbi Carnem ad- univerat,
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