·x 96 "'heTrial'and SE~ tS · our .fins on the 2ree, Ifa. liii. 1 o He made his Soul ·an Offering for fin. This Atonement of :Blood was typified in Aaron, who Lev. xvi. 20. zt. was tolayboth.hisHands on theHead .ofthe Jive-goat, and to confe.fs the fins of the People and Cl id tranflate them off from the People; /o as the Goat was to bear upon him all their Iniquities, unto a Land not Inhabited, v. 2:. Now this was the paying of a Ranfom for us, and a legal Tranflation ot the eternal Puniihment of our fins; but it is not Juftification, nor ever called J uftification: Then~ is a fort of Imputation of fin to Chrift here, and a Sum paid for me; but, with leave, no formal Inyputatio-n, no fodnfecal, and no perfonal Law-recf».oning to me, who arn not yet botn, far lefs cited before a Tribunal, and a.bfolved from fin: When Chrifi: had compleatly paid this Sum, Chrift .was jufti.fied legally, as a publick Pedon, and all his Seed fundamsntally, meritorioujly, caujfltivety, but not in their Perfons. / ' There is . a fecond removal of fin, and that is, when the Believer is juftified by Faith, Pau!, Rom. 1 v. 6. Even as V avid ( faith he ) aJfo defcribeth the Yltejfcdnejs of the Man, unto whom God imputeth Rit;J:Jieoufnefs without Works: v. • 7. faying, Ylle.lfed are they whofe Iniquites are forgiven, and whofe fins are covered. v. 8. Jlleffed is the .Jfan to tzvhom ,the Lord imputeth no fin. This is the Blelfedneis of a !vian born, living, be- ~ living: Now we fay improperly, the Heirs of a King not born are bleifed; Non enti.i nulla font ' accidentia. So, if ChrifVs removal offins on the Crofs, were J uil:ification, all Cl1t'ift's Seed, and we Believers of the Gmtiles, who were not then ' born;
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