5 i 2 The nature of y uíti fication, as declared on him, as he Would, and for what ends he would. But the imputation of his Righteoufnefs unto Believers, is confequen- tial in order of nature unto their union with him, whereby it becomes theirs in apeculiar manner ; fo as that there is not a parity of reafon that he fhould be efteemed a finner, as that they fhould be accounted Righteous. And (5 ) we acquiefce in this, that on the imputation of fin unto Chrift, it is Paid that God made him to ben for us, which he could not be, but thereby; and he was fo by an aft front-lent in its effe &s for a time only, that time wherein he underwent the punithment due, unto it. But on the imputation of his Righteoufnefs unto us, we are made the Righteoufnefs of God with an everlafiing Righteoufnefs that abides ours always. (6) To be á child of the Devil by fin, is to do the works of the Devil, Joh. 8.44. But the Lord Chrift in taking our fins upon him, when imputed unto him, did the workof God in the higheft a& of holy Obedience, evidencing himfelf to be the Son of God thereby, and deftroying,the work of the Devil. So foolith and impious is it, to conceive that any abfolute change of -Efate or relation in him did enfue there- on. That by the Righteoufnef of God in this place, our own Faith and Obedience according to the Gofpel, as fume would have it, are intended, is fo alien from the (cope of . the place, and fènfe of the words, as that I {hall not particularly exa- mine it. The Righteoufnefs of God is revealed to Faith, and received by Faith, and is not therefore Faith it felf And the force of the Antithef s is quite perverted by this conceit. For where is it in this, that he was made fin by the imputati- ®n of our fin unto him, and we are made Righteoufnefs, by the imputation of our own Faith and Obedience unto our felves. But as Chrift had no concern in fin, but as God made (in,it was never in him inherently ; fo have we no inte- rß in this Righteoufnefs, it is not in us inherently, but only is
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