oq. The Fornal to fe e u fictio zz believe. If it be-otherzaife, then it is plain that that, Righteonp we, it f if can never be made ours by believing ónly the fruit and e, ffe1s of it may be fuf ended on our Believing, whereby we may be made Partakers of them. 'Tea if Chri,j`t , made any filch fatisfal21on fár us as is pretendrd, it is really ours, without any farther Imputation. For being performed for ud and in our flead, it is the highest-injufice not to have us accounted par- doned and acquitted, without ,any farther either Imputation on the part of God, or Faith on ours. Thefe things I have tran- fcribed- out of Sociizus, De Servaiar. lib. q. cap. 2, 3, 4, 5. which I would not have doné; but that I find others to have gone before me therein, though to another purppofe. And he concludes with a confidence which others alto feem in foïne meafure to have learned of him. For he faith unto his Ad- verfáry, Hec tua, tuorumg5 fententia, adeo kola . & execrabilis peftilentiorem errorem paf homilies natos in populo Dei extitife non credam 5 fpeaking of the f tisfidlionof Chri i and the Imputation of it unto Believers. And indeed his erpen- tinewit was fertile in the Invention of - cavils againft all the myfteries of the Gofpel. Nor was he obliged by any one of them, fo as to contradi& himfelf in what he oppofed concer- 'ning any other* of them. For denying the `Deity of Chrift, his Satisfa &ion, . Sacrifice, Merit, Righteoufnefs, and over- throwing the whole nature of his Mediation, -nothing flood in his :way which he had amind to oppofe. But I fornewhat wonder how others- can make tire of his Inventions in this kind, who if they confidered aright` their proper tendency, they will find them to be=abfòlutelydefkru &ive of what they. Teem to own. So it is in this prefent Obje &ion againf the Imputation of the Righteoufnefs of Chrift ; If' it hath any force in it, as indeed it bath'not, it is to prove that the fa- tisfaelion of Chrift was impofiible 5 . and fo he intended it. But it will be eafily, removed.
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