The FormalCauf of Yùflzfi.at on. 3 z r unto Believers ; and it may on as good grounds be charged with;abfurdities as the other. It is not therefore laid that God judgeth.that we have in our own perfan.r clone thofe very Ads, and endured that penalty of the Law which the Lord Chrift did and endured. For this would overthrow all Imputa- tion; But what Chrift did and fuffered,thatGodimputeth unto Believers unto the Juftification ofLife,as Wit had beendone by themfelves5 and his Righteoufnefs as a publick perfon is made theirs by Imputation, even as the go of Adam whilít" a pub- lick perfon, is made the fin of all his Pofterity by Imputation: Hereon none of the abfurdities pretended, which are re- ally fuch, do at all follow. It doth not fo, that Chrift in his own perfon performed every individual Act that we in our circumftances are obliged unto in a .way of -Duty ; nor was there any need that fo he fhould do. This Imputation, as I have fhewed, Rands on other Foundations.. Nor doth it fol-' low, that every Paved Perfons Righteoufnefs'before God is the ßme,identically and numerically with Chrifts in his publick capacity as Mediator-; For this Obje &ion.deftroys it =Pelf, by affirmingthat as it was his, it was the Righteoufnef of God- Man ; and fo it hath an efpecial nature as it ref-peas or relates unto his Perlon. It is the fame that Chrift in his publick ca- pacity did work or effect. But there is a wide difference in the ,coníderatiçín of\it,...as, histabfooliate f,:a ndas made min': e, It was formally inherent in him, is only materially imputed unto us. Was aElive y his, , is paffively ours was wrought in the Perfon of God-man; for the whole Church, is imputed, un- to each fingle Believer,, as unto his own concernment only. Adams fin as imputed unto us, : is not the finnof a Reprefenta:- tive, though it be of his,that: was .fo ; but is ,the particular fin of everyone of us:, But this Obje&ion.muft be further fpoken unto where it occurs afterwards. Nor will. it follow, that on this fuppofition we, Ihould be accounted to have done, thrht.,which: was done long.before we were in a. capacity, of doing any r,:.,
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