4.5o The Prieflhoodof ChrO. VERSE4. ring may procure a difcharge to theperfon guilty,and be valide to free him , thewill,confent and mercyofhim to whom the infliaion ofthe punifinnent belongeth mutt concurre , and his over-ruling power mutt difpence though not with the fubaance ofthe Lawes demands, yet with the manner ofexecution,and with that rigour, which bindes wrathperemptorily upon thehead onely of him that bath delayed it. So thenwee fee both thefe things doe fweetly concurre;fira,a precedent fatisfaaion by paying the debr; and yet fecondly,a true pardon and remiflion thereofto that panic which fhould have paid it, andout ofmercy towardshim,a difpencing with the rigorofthatLaw , which in firidneffe wouldnot admit anyother topay it for him. ' Thus wee fee howChria bath fuffered our punith- ment. Secondly, hee didall obedience, and fulfilled all glions ofrighteoufheffe for us ;forjuchan high becameme who isholy ,harmelejp,undefiled,feparatefrom gpmers,Heb.7,26. Heecame not into the world butfor us, and thereforehee neither fuffered, nor did any thing but for us. As the colour of theglaffe is by the favor of the Sunne-beame alining through it made the color of the wall, not inherent in it, but relucent upon it, by an extrinfecall affe6tion : fo the righteoufnefle ofChritt by the favor ofGod is fo imputedunto Hr , as that wce are roadgratiorum Vei conffielltom righteous too. In which fenfe Iunderfiand thole words Heebathnot be- held iniquitie inJacob, neither bathbeTeenperverfeneffe in Ifrael, Num.23.zr. Though it is indeed in him, yet the Lord looketh on himas&ached with the righteoufneffe ofChrifl , and fo is laidnot to fee it, as the eye teeth the color ofthe glaffe in the wall , and therefore cannot be- hold that other inherent color ofits ovvne , which yet it knoweth to bee in it. Nowof thisDoarineofINflificatiox byChrifis righ- teonfnefe imputed wee may make a double life. Firfl, it may
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