The Formal Café of Yufiifacation. 295 this Vnion, Reafon will grant the Imputation pleaded for to be reafonable ; at leaft, that there is fuch a peculiar Ground for it, as is not to be exemplified in any things natural or po- litical among men. 2. ThelKature of Imputation lath been fully fpoken unto before, and thereunto I refer the Reader for the underítan ding of what is intended thereby. 3. That which is imputed is the l iihteoi fnef of Chill ; and briefly I underfrand hereby, his whole Obedience unto God in all that he did and fuffered for the Church. This I fay is imputed: unto Believers, fo as to become their only Righteoufnefs before God unto the Jufrification of Life. If beyond there things any ExprefJions have been made ufe of in the Explanation of this Truth, which have given occa_ fion unto any Differences, or Contefts, although they may be true and defenfible again{r Obje&ions, yet {hall not I con- cern my felf in them. The fubfiance of the Truth as laid down, is that whofè Defence I have undertaken, and where that is granted or contented unto, I will not contend with any about their way and methods of its Declaration, nor de- fend the Terms and Exprefhions that have by any been made ufe of therein. For infrance. Some have faid, that what Chril did and fuffered, . is fo imputed unto us, as that' we are judged and efleemed in the fight of God to have done or fuffered our 'elves in him.. This I {hall not concern my felf in. For although it may have a found fettle given unto it, and is ufèd by fome of the Antients, yet becaufe offence is taken at it, and the fuhftance of the Truth we plead for is better other - wife expreffed, it ought not to be contended about. For we do not fay that God judgeth or efreereth that we did and fuffered in our own perföns what Chrifr did and fuffered,, but only that he did it and. fuffered it in our ftead.. Hereon God makes a Grant and Donation of it unto' Believers upon their Believing, unto their Juftificatiozi before him. And the
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