27 6 Chrifl and Believers one Myflical Perf na dwelleth in him, unto them, to abide in, to animate and guide the whole myftical Body and all its Members. But this bath of late been fo much fpokeu unto, as that I shall do no more but mention it. On the confiderations infifted on, whereby the Lord Chrift became one myflical Perfon with the Church, or bare the Perfon of the Church in what he did as Mediator, in the. Holy Wife difpofal of God as the Authour of the Law, the fupreme Re&or or Governour of all mankind, as unto their Temporal and Eternal concernments, and by his own confent, . the fins of all the Elea were imputed unto him. This having been the Faith and Language of the Church in all Ages, and that, derived from and founded in exprefs Teftimonies of Scripture, with all the Promifes and Prefignations of his Ex- hibition in the flesh from the beginning, cannot now with any Modefty be exprefly denied.. Wherefore the Socinians themfèlves grant that our (ins may be faid to be imputed unto, Chrifi, and he to undergo the punishment of them, fo far as that all things which befell him Evil and Affliaive in this life, with the Death which he underwent, were occa{ioned, by our (ins. For had not we finned, there had been no need of, ynor occa(%on for his fulering. But notwithftanding this con- ceffion they exprefly deny his fatisfaaion,or that properly he underwent the punishment dueunto our fins ; wherein they deny alfo all Imputation of them unto him. Others fay that our -fns .. were imputed_ unto him, guoad reatum pone, but not woad reatum.culpe. But I mutt acknowledge that unto me this diflin &ion gives inanem fne mente fonum. The fubflance of iris. much infifted on by Feuardentiits, Dialog. 5.pag. 467. And he is followed by others.. That which he would prove by it, is, That the Lord Chrift did not prefent. 'himfeelf before the Throne of God, with the burden of our fns upon him, fo as to.antwer utztathe juflice. of God for them. Whereas . therefore reatus, or guilt, may lignifie either Dignitatem penne or
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