into the Law, Declared and Vindicated. 389 Grace, and our Title unto the heavenly Inheritance do de- pend. This we have not in and of our felves, nor can at- tain unto, as bath been proved. Wherefore the perfe& Obe- dience and Righteoufnefs of Chrift is imputed unto us, or ii the fight of God we can never be Juffified. Nor are the cavilling Objections of the Socinians,and thofe that follow them,of any force againff the Truth herein. They tell us that the Righteoufnefs of Chrift can be imputed but unto one, if unto any. For who can fiappofe that the fame Righteoufnefs' of One fhould become the Righteoufnef of many,even ofall that believe. Befides he performed not all the Duties that are required of us in all our Relations, he being never placed in them. Thefe things I fay, are both foolifh and impious, de- firu Live unto the whole Gofpel. For all things here depend on the Ordination of God. It is his Ordinance that as through the offence of One many are dead ; fo his Grace, and the Gift of Grace, through one man Chrift Jefus bath abounded unto many; and as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all men unto Condemnation, fo by the Righteoufnefs of One, the free Gift came upon all unto the Righteoufnefs of life,, and by the Obedience of One many are made Righteous ; as the Apoffle argues Rom. g. For God fent his own Son in the lil¿enef offinful flefh and for fin, that the Righteoufnefs of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Rom. 8. 3, 4. For he was the End' of the Lam (the whole End of it) for Righteoufnefs unto them that do believe, Chap. ro. 4. This is the Appointment of the Wifdom, Righteoufnefs and Grace of God, that the whole Righteoufnefs and Obedience of Chrift fhould be accepted as our compleat Righteoufnefs before him, imputed unto us by his Grace, and applied unto us or made ours through believing, and confequently unto all that believe. And if the aítual sin of Adam be imputed unto us all, who derive our Nature from him unto Condemnation, though he finned not in our Oircum- fiances and Relations, is it ffrange that the canal Obedience of Chrift
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