the Church unto Chr. / 49 the members do fufer ; fo the many members, (inning and He- ring, He according unto the Laws of fympathy in the fame body, (feeing that being the Word of God, he would take the form of a Servant, and be joyned unto the common habitation of its all (in the fame nature) took the furrows or labours of the fisffè- ring members on him, and made all their Infirmities his own, and according to the Laws of humanity (in the fame body ) bare our forrow and labour for us. And the Lamb of God did not only thefe things for us, but he underwent torments, and was punijhed for us ;that which he was no ways expo fed unto for him- fill; but we were fo by the multitude of our fins ; and thereby he became the caufe of the pardon of our fins; narnely,becaufe he un- derwent Death , Stripes, Reproaches, tranflating the thing which we had deferved unto himfelf; and was made a Curfe for us, taking unto himfelf the Curfe that was due to us ; For what was he, but (a fubftitute for us) a price of Redemption for our Souls ? In our perfon therefore the Oracle f f eaks, - - -- whi freely uniting himfelf unto us, and us unto himfelf, and making our (lns or paffions his own) I have fold Lord be merciful unto me, heal my Soul, for I have finned againft thee. That our fins were transferred unto Chrift and made his, that thereon he underwent the punifhment that was due unto us for them : and that the Ground hereof, whereinto its Equity is refolved, is the 'Union between him and us, is fully declared in this Difcourfe. So faith the Learned and Pathe- tical Author of the Homilies on Math. 5. in the works of Chryfoftom, Hom. 54. which is the lai of them. In carne fua omnem carnem fufcepit, crucifiXus, omnem carnem crucifi:xit in fi. He (peaks of the Church. So they fpeak often others of them ; that he bare us, that he took us with him on the Crof that we were all crucifíéd in him ; as Proffer ; He is not Paved by the Crof of Chrift, who is not crucified in Chri ft. Ref. ad cap. Gal, cap. 9. This then I fay is the Foundation of the Imputation of the K k. fins
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