Thereon all our Sins were Imputed to him. 2 7 7 or obligationem ad poenam, as Bellarmine diftinguifheth, de Amif. Grat. lib. 7. cap. 7. with refpe& unto Chrift, the latter only is to be admitted. And the main Argument he and others infilt upon, is this ; That if our fins be imputed unto Chrift, as unto the guilt of the fault, as they (peak, then he mutt bepolluted with them, and thence be denominated a (inner in every kind. And this would be true, if our fins could be Communicated unto Chrift byTranîfufion, fo as to be his in- herently and fubje&ively. But their being fo only by Im- putation gives no countenance unto any fuch pretence. How- ever there is a notion of legal unckannef, where there is no inherent defilement. So the .Pricil who offered the Red Heifer to make Atonement, and he that burned her, were laid to be unclean, Numb. 19. 7, 8. But hereon they fay, that Chrift dyed andfuffered upon the fecial Command of God,not that his Death and Suffering were any way due upon the account of our fns ; or required in Juftice, which is utterly to over- throw the fatisfa &ion of Chrift. Wherefore the defign of this diflinclion, is to deny the Imputation of the guilt of our fins unto Chrifl, and then in what tolerable fenf can they bé laid to be imputed unto him, I cannot underftai d. But we are not tyed up unto Arbitra- ry di in1 ions, and the fenf that any are pleafèd to impofe on the terms of them. Ifhall therefore firli enquire into the meaning of there words, guilt and guilty, whereby we may be able to, judge of what it is, which in this Diftin&ion, is intended. The Hebrews have no other word to liignifie guilt or guilty but =rm. And this they ufe both for fin, the guilt of it, the punifhraent due unto it, anda Sacrifice for it. Speaking of the guilt of Blood; they ufe not any word to lignifie guilt, but only fay .07 ©i it is Blood; to him. So David prays deliver me =min from Blood , which we render Bloodlguiltinefi,Pfaj.. 51..I4. And this was, becaufe by the Conth
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