Myil cal Per jn with the Church. 2 8 5 and betides, the guilt of his atual fin is imputed unto them, as if it had been committed by every one of them. But yet. - his particular perfonal (in, neither ever did, nor ever could be- come the perfonal fin of any one of them, any otherwife . than by the Imputation of its guilt unto. them. Wherefore our fins neither are, nor can be fà imputed unto Chrift, as. that they íhould become fubjec`tively his, as they are a- Tranf greffion of the Preceptive part of the Law. A Phyfical Tranf lation. or..Transfufon of fin is in this café naturally and fpí- ritually impofiible ; and yet on a fuppofition thereof alone,, do the horrid confequences mentioned depend. But the guilt, of (in is an external refpe t of it, with regard unto the fan - thon of the Law-only. This is feparable from fin, and if it were not fo no one finner could either be pardoned or faxed... It may therefore be made anothers by Imputation, and yet . that other not rendered formally a finner thereby.. 'This was.. that which was imputed unto. Chrift, whereby he was ren- dred obnoxious untó the Curt of the Law. For it was im pof ible that the Law thould pronounce any accurfed.but the guilty ; nor would do fò, Dent. 27.2 6., 2. There is a great difference between the Imputation o, f the Righteoufneffof Chrift unto us, and the Imputation of our fins unto Chrift ; fo as that he cannot in the fame manner be faid to be made a (iinner by the one,,as we are made Righteou. by the other. For our fin was imputed.. unto Chrift only,,, as he was our. Surety for, a time, to this end, that he might take_ it away, deftroy it and abolifh it. It was never imputed unto fo as to make any alteration abfolutely in his perfonah fate and condition. But his Righteoutñefs is imputed unto,: us, to abide with us, to be ours always, and to make a. total. change in our ftate and condition as unto our Relation unto., God. Our fin was imputed unto him, only for afafon,, not . abfalutely, but as he-was a Surety, and, u to the fpecial end of ¿ccitroying it; and taken on hinh on this condition that his. Righteou& -.
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