50 2 The nature of Yu[í fcation, as declared ous expreffion, that he becomes all there things unto us in the Providence of God. But ask him in particular, how Chrift is made Santifcation unto us, and he will tell you that it was by his DotJrine and Example alone, with fome fuch general affittance of the Spirit of' God as he will al- low. But now, this is no way at all whereby Chrift was made Redemption unto us which being a thing external, and not wrought in us , Chrift can be no otherwife made Re- demption unto us, then by the Imputation unto us of what he did, that we might be redeemed, or reckoning it on our account. Not that he was redeemed fir us, as he childifbly cavils, but that he did that whereby we are redeemed. Wherefore Chrift is made of God Righteoufnefs unto us in fuch a way and manner, as the nature of the thing Both re- quire. Say fome, it is becaufe by him we areju.flified. How- beit the Text fays not, That by him we are juilif ed, but he is of God made Righteoufnef unto us, which is not our jufli- fication, but the ground caufe and reafon whereon we are juttified. Righteoufnefs is one thing, and Juftification is an- other. Wherefore we muff inquire how we come to have that Righteoufnef whereby we are juftifed. And this the fame Apoftle tells us plainly is by Imputation: Bleffed is the Man unto whom the Lord imputeth Righteoufnefs. Rom. 4.6. It follows then,that Chrift being made unto us of God Righ- teoufnefs, can have no other fenfe, but that his Righteoufnefs is imputed unto us, which is what this Text doth undeniably confirm. 2 Cor. 5. 2 i. The Truth pleaded for, is yet more emphatically exprefs- ed. For he bath made him to be rn for us, who knew no f n, that we might be made the Righteoufne/s of God in him. The Para- phrafe of Ala-line on thefe words gives the fenfe of them. pfe peccatsm ut nos juflitia, non nofira fed Dei, non in nabis fed
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