284 Confepuences on Chrifi's being. one 3. To imagine fuck an Imputation of our fins unto Chrifl, as that thereon they Ihould ceafe to be our (ins, and become his abfolutely, is to overthrow that which' is affirmed. For on that fuppofition Chrift would not fuffer for our fins, for they ceafed to be ours, antecedently unto his fuffering. But the Guilt of them was fo transferred unto him, that through his fuffering for it, it might be pardoned unto us. Thefe things being premifed, I fay, t, There is in fin a Tranfgreffion of the Preceptive part of the Law, and there is an obnoxioufnefs unto the Punifh went from the Sanecion of it. It is the firfl that gives fin itsformal nature, and where that is not fubjeftively, no per - fon can be conftituted formally a firmer. However, any one may be fo denominated as unto fome certain end or purpofe, yet without this, formally a [inner none can be, whatever be imputed unto them. And where that is, no non -imputation of fin as unto punifhment, can free the perfon in whom it is, from being formally a (inner. When Bathfheba told David that the and her Son Solomon fhould be Tin (inners, by having crimes laid unto their charge ; and when Judah told 7acab, that he would be a (inner before him always on the ac- count of any evil that befell Benjamin, (it thould be impu- ted unto him) yet neither of them could thereby be con- ftituted a (inner formally. And on the other hand, when Shimei defired David not to impute fin unto him, whereby he efcaped prefent punifhmeiat, yet did not that non-imputa- tion free him formally from being, a [inner. Wherefore fin under this confederation as a 7 ranfgref f ion of the Preceptive . part of the Law, cannot be communicated from one unto another, unlefs it be by the propagation of a vitiated fin Prin- ciple or Habit. But yet neither fo will the perform! f one as inherent in him, ever come to be the perfonal of another. Adam bath upon his perfonal fin communicated a itious,dep raved , and corrupted nature unto k sPofter and
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