SEtt· t9 '1'riumpb of Faith; ~o~ When 'the :Jury is asked, Guilty, or .not guilty ? The 7uryfaith, Guilty. What do they mean ?. ~o they mean any Thing; in Refpe8 of Punijhment ? No: The .7ury hath nothing to do with that, but only in 111atters of Fa8; t/J;tis, Whether the Fa8 be done, or not done ?---·Lit hdd been extream lnjuflice to punijh Chrift, if Sin had not been on him,~ if he had been at his Araign- 'ment, compJeat and alfolutel!)' innocent, even as if a :Jud;;e jhould hang a Man, though there ~.vere nothing found a~ainfi him~-----Man is a - broken :Debtor, and Chrift a Surety: God is content to ·take Chrifr's fingte :Bond, and tooketh for no other Pay-mafler but Chrift: Sin was ·really tranjlated upon Chrift, el.fe i( rwas falft, . that the Lord laid on on him th'e Iniquities of • us all; yea, by this Trattfa8ion ofSin, ~hriftdoth nor:.v become, or did become, when our Sins were lai£1 on him, as reall}! and truly, the Perfon that had all thefe Sins, as thofe Men who did commit them really and truly, had themfetv~s-------- So Chrifl was made Sin it [elf, •we ar.qmade ·Righteoufnefi in him, that is 1to-Jma rr,ination :. . · :But as rzve are a8uat and real Sinners '·in Adam;- fo here is a real Afi, God doth_really pajs over fin upon Chrijl, jli!l keeping. this fafl, that Chrift aBed no Sin ; fo that in Re/peEl of the AB, not one fin of the Jfeliever is Chrifi':i: . :Btst in RefPeB of 'franfctClion, itz R ejpe8oj paffing if Accompts f rom one Head to another, ·;,t Refpeff of that, tbere is Reality of makt'nJ; of Chrijt to be Sin :--- - -~ If a :Judg·e ·will thinkjucb a Man to be a lrfatej'affot, and by Reafon of his 7'ha.ughts that he i s a Jl1;rJ~fa8or, he will aBu- ~eily hang this Matt ; Is tkere any 7ufiice i1~ foch, '.
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