8 S Conf èquences on Cbrif#'s being one fo. If guilt was not imputed unto Chrift, he could not, aS they plead well enough, undergo the punithment of fin much he might do and fuffer on the occafion of fin, but undergo the puniíhment dice unto fin he could not. And if it fhould be granted that the guilt of fin was imputed unto him, they will not deny but that he underwent the punith- ment of it ; and if he underwent the ptrnithment of it, they will not deny but that the guilt of it was imputed unto him ; For thefe things are infeparably related. 3. Chrift was made a Curfe for us, the Curfe of the Law 5 as is exprefly declared, Gal. 3. 13, 14. But the Curfe of the Law refpets the guilt of fin only ; So as that where that is not, it cannot take place in any fenfe, and where that is, it doth infeparably attend it, Deut. 27. 26. 4. The exprefs Te tinionies of the Scripture unto this purpofe cannot be evaded, without an open wreftingg of their words and fenfe So God is Paid to make all our Ini- quities to meet upon him ; and he bare them on him as his burden, for fo the word fignifies, Ifa. 53. 6. God hath laid on him, 1,2 311V r--Iri the Iniquity, that is, the guilt of us all, r'er. r t. onair and their fin or guilt thall he bear. For that is the intendment of hy where joyned with any other word that denotes fin as it is in thole places, Pfal. 32. 5. thou forgaveftl on ny the Iniquity of my fin, that is, the guilt of it, which is that alone that is taken away by pardon. That his Soul was made an Offering for the guilt of fin, that he was made fin, that fin was condemned in his fled], &c. 5. This was reprefented in all the Sacrifices of old, efpeci- ally the great Anniverfary, on the day of expiation, with the Ordinance of the Scape Goat, as hath been before declared. 6. Without a fuppofition hereof it cannot be underftood, how the Lord Chrift Ihould be our AvTí4u2&or fùfferdrTi ;lava in our head, unlefs we will admit the expofition of Mr. Ho. a
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