Mycal Perfoia with the Church. n 8 3 Bellarmin; lib. 2'. de yuf ifrcat. not for its own fake, but to difprove the Imputation of his Righteoufnefs unto us, as it is continued by others, with the fame defign. For, faith he;, if we be made Righteous, and the Children of God through the Imputation of the Righteoufnefs of Chrill, then was be made a (,inner, & quod horret aninurs cogitare, fzlius Diaboli ; by the Imputation of the Guilt of our fits, or our Zlnrighteoufne feunto him. And the fame Objection is preflèd by others, with in- flIances-of confequences, which for many Reafons I heartily wifh had been forborn. But I anfwer, T. Nothing is more abfolutely true, nothing is more fa- credly or affuredly believed by us, then, that nothing which Chrift did or fuffered, nothing that he undertook or under- went, did or could conftitute him, fubjectively, inherently,, and thereon perf pally a firmer, or guilty of any fin of his own. To bear the Guilt or Blame of other mens faults, to be alien& cape réur, makes no man a firmer, unlefs he did un- wifely or irregularly undertake it. But that Chrift fhould admit of any thing of fin in himfelf, as it is abfolutely inconfi- item with the Hypofatical Vnion, fo it would renderhim un- rneet for all other Duties of his Office, Heb. 7. 25, 26. And I confefs it hath always feemed fcandalous unto me,t hat Socinus,. Crellius, and Grotiirs, do grant that in fome fenfe Chri fufered for his own fins, and would prove it from that very place wherein it is pofitively denied, Heb. 7. 27. This ought to be facredly fixed, and not a word ufed, nor thought enter- tained of any poffibility of the contrary, upon any fuppofi- tion whatever. 2. None ever dreamed of a Transfulion or propagation of fin from us unto Chrift, filch as there 'was from Adam unto us. For Adam was a common perfon unto us, we are not fo to Chrift; yea he is fo to us; and the Imputation of our fins unto him, is a fingular Act of Divine Difpenfation, which no evil confequence can enfue upon. 0 o 2 3. To
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