in the Ep /let of St. Paul, &c. 483 accomplifhment or fulfilling of the whole Law. This the An- tithejis doth require. Hereby many are made Righteous. How ? By the Imputation of that Obedience unto them. For fo and no otherwife, are men made Sinners by the Imputation of the Disobedience of Adam. And this is that which gives us a right and title unto eternal life; as the Apoftle declares, verf 2 i. That as sin reigned unto death; fo might Grace reign through Righteouf- nefs unto eternal life. This Righteoufnefs is no other but the obedience of one, that is, of Chrift,as it is called, verf, i8. And it is laid to come upon us, that is, to be imputed unto us; For bleffed is the man unto whom God imputeth Righteoufnefs. And hereby we have not only deliverance from that Death and Condemnation whereunto we were liable by the Sin of Adam, but the Pardon of many Offences, that is, of all our Perfonal sins, and a right unto life eternal through theGrace of God; for we are Iufttfied freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in Chrift Jefus. And thefe things are thus plainly and fully delivered by the Apoftle, unto whole feule and expreffions allo (fo far as may be ) it is our Duty to accommodate ours. What is offered in oppofition hereunto, is fo made up of Exceptions and Evafions, perplexed Difputes, and leadeth us fo far off from the plain words o£the Scripture, that the Confcience of a convinced Sinner knows not what to fix upon to give it reft and faisfaction, nor what it is that is to be believed unto Juffification. Pifeator in his Scholia on this Chapter and elfewhere, in- fifteth much on a 1pecious Argument againfl the Imputation ofthe Obedience of Chrift unto our Juftification. But it pro - ceedeth evidently on an open miftake and falle fuppofition,as well as it is contradictory unto the plain words of the Text. It is true which he obferves and proves, that our Redemp- tion, Reconciliation, Pardon of Sin, and Juftifiation are Q,q q a often 1
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