Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

206 '!be Trial and SER. 19 foch tt!t AB? If God rzvitt- but foppofe Chrift to have ji11 upon bim, and knows that he bath it 'not, but others have the Sins upon them : And · upon this Suppo.fition ~will execute Chrift : Wbat ' · witl you eaU this ? Ifa. Iiii. He .fh.allbear the fln r of many: 'IJoth a Man bear a Thing on him in a TVay offuppofition? Or, where there is bearinJt;, is there not reat Weight ? The Lamb of God taketh away the Sins of the Ttf!Qrtd, Joh. i: 29. Can it .fiitk in• a reafonabJe Perfon, that ' ~ Thing jhould be taken away, and yei be left 'behind? It is a flat Con~radi8ion : If a Ma1t f;e to receive .!Jfoney at Juch a Place, and he doth take this A1on~y away wt'th him, ir the Afoney left in the Place where it ezvas, when he bath ttzken it away? Although I havefearched the Scripture as narror;J)~l' as pQffibly I may; yet this I :find, that , throughout the whole Scripture, there is not one Scripture tbat fpeaketh of imputins; our SillS to Chrift : Yiut flilt the Holy Gh~fi (peaketb of .fin not inzput- . 'ed to us, and of Righteoufnefs imputed to us. . , Let me anfwer, That in all this you fhall find Grace turned into Wantonnefs, in all' this Man's Sermons, there is not one Word to fi:ir up to the Duties of Santl:ification and Holinefs, but there is much in thefe Words, and feveral other Pa!fages ·of his two little Volumes of Sermons, to_ depreiS, and cry down Holineis and ~alking w1th God. I !hall therefore fay a lttde o.n this, and deliver Truth fhortly in thefe Pofittons. , P~fit. I . No Believer's Sin is fo· counted upon Chrifr's Score, as that it leaveth off to be the . B~

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