216 '1 he TYittl aJ~tl Srnt. 19 fi>r he can be reproached formallv, with no A~.·l t>[ treacherous dealing, as if unckr Truft he had ftabbed h~ Brother, for he did no fuch Atl: ; jf Sha,me by accident accompany his pub] ick lay. ing down of his Life, 'tis morally no Reproach, no intrinfical Blot to him ; yea, that Adam dieth fer .7obn the Murderer, it is through his own free Conknt ,an AB: of n.tream I <>ve; in relation to the Judge, it is a moft juft Aa,and in Law only, jn Imputation and legal account, he is the Mur.. aer.er. But poor Soul he never thought, nor aa... ed any Treachery 9r Cruelty againft his · Bro.. ther. . ~· Hence this Pofition : Chrift was made nn, t)r Imputed the Sinner, , anti' died for us Sinners : il'he fecond Adam, the fir(l beg'Qtten amottgft nzanj' Yirethren, fuffered ·for his younger Brethren. · <Jnd fo, by free confenting to be our Surety, and die for us, Pfal. xl. 6, '1. 8. Heb. x. 5, 6, 7. . 7ohrr ~· 17. 18. 7ohn xiv.. 31. Matth. xxvi. 46. .i11ark ~iv. 41. . 7ohn ~viii . .,, 8. He was made by LawCi.Ccount, fin fer . us, as tne finner, .7ohn xv. 1 ;. ~ Cor v. z.t. to die for us, Rom. iv. 25. And the Lord laid upon him the Iniquities of us all, lja. liii. 6. 1 Pet:ii. 24. 2 5· But I judge it Blafphrmy to fay, JJy tbis Cfranfo;Bion of fin upon Chri{l, Chrijf: t!oth now become, or did berome, &f1.'hen our Jins tzvere laid on him, as realty and truly the · Per(on t/:Jat did alt rhefe fins, as tbefe Men who did commit tl·em nJailJ', and truly had the{e /ins on themfeJves: For the EleB: :Believers in ·chrift were intrinfically, formally, inherently Adulter. ers, Mude,rers, VifobedienJ, feNJing iJi·vers Lufls. Tit. iii. j . '.l)ead in Sins 4t1d 'IPefpajJes, by Nf!- ,. , tr~re the C!JiJdren of fiVrath, .Eph. ij. J. And 1!1 · their
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