ThePrieflhoodofChrili. 01.11 .m.Essawameemoor.... imputed unto us (which manner of imputation is like- wife fondonevuem demeriti, and canfeth us to deferve punifhment) but voluntary byway ofvodirmany andfif- ception. And fo guilt is onely a free and willing obnoxi- oufheffe unto that punifhment which another bath de- ferved. Among° finfiill men it is true that the fonne (hall not beare the punifhment of the fathers fonne: firfi,becaufe he is altogether perfonally diflina.Second- ly, becaufe he is not appointed fo todoe, as Chrift was, leb.1a. 18. Thirdly, becaufe bee is not able to beare them, foas to take themoff from his father as Chrifl did ours : He was himfelfe able to !land under our punifh- ment without finking, and was able by fuffering them, to take them off from us, bccaufe his perfon was an- fwerable in dignitie, and therefore ( by the grace of God, and the asofhis Divine jurifdiation in ordering the way to his owne fatisfaaion) equivalent in juflice unto all ours. Fourthly, becaufe he hath alreadie too manyofhis owne to beare. But yet,if the wilofthe fon goe along with the father iniinning,it is not firange,nor unufuall for him to fuffer for his fathers andhis owne fin together, as for the amtimeatieto of the fame offence; bccaufe, though heedoe not will the punifhtnent ( as Chri(l didours) yet imitating and continuing the fin, there is Volum: inAiNfa, for the punifhment too. Now for an anfwer and refolution of the queflion, Yid. Grot, de whether an innocent perfon may fuffer for a nocent, wee fatisfaCtiene muff note firfi that Godout of his Dominion over all things, may cafi paines upon an innocent perfon, as it is rnanifefi he did upon Chrifi : And what ground ofcom- plaint could any creature have againfi God, if he fbould have created it in fire, and made the placeofits habitati- on the infirument ofits paine ? Doenot wee our felves without cruelty upon many occafions putcreatures that have not offended us untopain ? Secondly, it is not univerfally againfl equity for one to 445 VERSE+,
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